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Crossing To Paradise (2008)

by Kevin Crossley-Holland(Favorite Author)

3.76 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

054505866X (ISBN13: 9780545058667)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Arthur A. Levine Books

review 1: Another lovely, strong female protagonist who learns and grows throughout her travels. Crossley-Holland is simple in his tale, with plenty of showing not telling; it feels nicely medieval to me, without any apologies to the reader for some of the ugliness of the period. I love his language: he hangs on to some of the flavors of the old Saxon: "seething, thieving London," "the many-tongued sea," "muddy-dark sand."
review 2: I read this as I read all of the Carnegie shortlist this year. It has a very nice cover and dustcover which makes it look good on a shelf. Sadly, I don't judge a book by it's cover and I simply found this book to be mediocre. It was pleasant enough but lacked any excitement at all for me. Maybe Crossley-Holland wanted to give the reader the i... morempression of the slow, plodding journey to Jerusalem by making his novel have a similiar pace but it simply didn't work for me.I've not read the original Arthur trilogy that this novel is a spin-off from, which may have prevented me from enjoying it more. Sadly, after this offering, I won't be reading those either. A very disappointing read. less

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