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Valeria's Last Stand (2009)

by Marc Fitten(Favorite Author)

3.26 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1596916206 (ISBN13: 9781596916203)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Bloomsbury USA

review 1: A curiously interesting book. It has a quite peculiar sort of crude, broken narrative that may irritate the reader at the beginning. However, I found myself going through the pages of this book unhindered by crave to reach the finale. This sort of writing style reminded me of a move script slammed with occasional notes from the production team. As some of the previous reviewers remarked, it is difficult to sympathize with particular characters, but I think that is mostly because of the fact that the village itself is the main character and not any of its hand-picekd inhabitants. With their actions, they give color to the setting and that is precisely why the author doesn't delve into ornate descriptions of their state of minds. To emphasize this, the author deliberately wi... morethheld the many of the character names and referred to them by their status or profession. In this light, any other discussion as to how lively some of them do or do not look, is in my opinion, quite pointless.As I myself am coming from a former communistic country that is going through a turmoil of seemingly never ending political changes, I confess I feel for the villagers of Zivatar on a highly personal level. However, for a westernized reader, the setting might seem as an amusing or even grotesque piece of author's private fiction. If you can accept that place like this can and does exist, you could get an astonishingly more vivid perception and truly enjoy the storyline right to the last page.
review 2: I gave this 3 stars because I was genuinely intrigued by the first few chapters. However, I feel let down by the development. I'm not sure if Valeria was even meant to be likeable anymore, and in the beginning, I thought she was a misunderstood person who saw things for what they really were, holding on to her principles, when really, she wasn't really like that. If this book was meant to be a portrait of the Hungarian folk, perhaps it did a decent job. However, I don't think there is any valuable message. less

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