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Hacamat (Bir Bohemya Romanı) (2013)

by Linda Lafferty(Favorite Author)

3.7 of 5 Votes: 4

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English

genre

Romance

publisher

Trend Yayınevi

review 1: This book touches on many issues important to me : mental illness, epistemology, and women's condition. It plays with the real/unrealness of mental illness. The main character dutifully studies up on the current theories of disease. From our modern viewpoint all these theories are wrong. How is she to know that? Are we about to have a break through in how we currently think about disease. The book is infused with references to what is normal in everyday life at the time. It's the little details that add up so matter-of-factly to a sense of a very different place and time.
review 2: This book was a study in unrealized potential. Some other reviewers have complained first and foremost about the historical inaccuracies, and those were certainly clear and present,... more but I was able to move past those fairly easily. What got me was how good this book *could* have been. The story itself was almost good; in some ways it almost reminded me of Phantom of the Opera. But it fell short every time. The main characters were almost clearly drawn, but their actions kept veering into the unrealistic and melodramatic. The female lead is a teenager, lives in poverty, assists her father in his bloodletting practice, is emotionally and mentally abused by her mother, but goes all grrl power and acts determined to pursue her dream of becoming a physician. In 17th century Bohemia. Uh huh, sure. That's plausible. The male romantic character appears fairly early in the story, largely disappears for half the book, reappears two-thirds of the way through declaring his love for the female lead (sorry, spoiler) and his intention to marry her... after briefly meeting her once. Right. The terror exacted upon the village by Don Julius is palpable, and he may be the most clearly and truly depicted character. The author jammed historical contemporaries in and had them cross paths (Jesenius and Kepler, among others), which they may well have done, but these interactions were - at most - minorly germane to the story. She addressed the struggle between the Hapsburg royal family for control of the throne, but only skimmed the surface. Basically, this was a good first draft, an excellent outline, but desperately needed a capable author to flesh out the plot, refine the characters into believability, and enhance the historical aspect (to say nothing of the historical facts) a la Victor Hugo (though maybe I was the only person who enjoyed the historical interludes in Les Mis). less

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