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The Case Of The Imaginary Detective (2008)

by Karen Joy Fowler(Favorite Author)

2.73 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0670917753 (ISBN13: 9780670917754)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Viking Books

review 1: Well I'm not quite sure how I want to word this.... I gave the book three stars, but two and a half is more like it. I kept reading the book, not knowing if it was because of the author's writing (which really is quite good) or my own quest to find the story.I think the jacket cover was misleading because this is *not* your average Whodunnit mystery, and I think that was what I was expecting when I started to read this. But I couldn't find the plot. I could see pieces of the story - the main character who is riddled with grief, who goes to live with her God-mother. I get that part. And I get the other quirky characters too... Who among us doesn't have a bunch of quirky people in their lives?The main problem though, aside from my search for the plot, was that I didn't like ... morethe main character. I couldn't really root for her. She was annoying.If I was to recommend Wit's End to someone (which I probably won't) it would be with a disclaimer to ignore the jacket cover. I'd say to go into it with no expectations and let the author take you on a bumpy, curvy, strange ride....
review 2: The story is a tad complicated, in no small part because there are relationships to keep track of among many characters, both "real" and "fictitious," with names like Rima and Scorch and Bim. Yes, these are people, not chickens. And like I said, most of them are real, but some of them are characters in a series of books written by one of the main characters, Addison (no, still not a chicken). These fake characters seem so real to some of the real characters that one of the real characters, who is dead, wrote letters to one of the fake ones...for years. But he was also kind of real, so, like I said, it's a tad complicated.If you, like me, read a lot of fiction, you may enjoy this. I did very much 95% of the time. Five percent of the time, I enjoyed it less, as I was revisiting former chapters to verify and clarity who was whom and who was real and/or not real.The other reason I kept flipping back pages was because though Fowler wrote it in the third person, it most often felt as if it I knew only as much as Rima did...until suddenly I knew more. Way more. And that threw me off every stinking time. Regardless, I was surprised by the ending, often thought of the book when not reading it, and am glad I used the hours I did go back and forth among its pages. less

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