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What The Family Needed. By Steven Amsterdam (2012)

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3.35 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1846555809 (ISBN13: 9781846555800)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Harvill Secker

review 1: I struggled to finish this. Some of the stories are amazing, some are clearly filler and lack the depth and charm of the first few. I think the problem is that while all the characters are interesting, few are familiar or relate-able. And while that's not the worst thing in the world, it's extra important when the stories are set years apart. I just got left behind, I guess, and the narrative wasn't strong enough to carry me forward.
review 2: I can understand why some people love this book, but I didn't really enjoy reading it. The story is told in a series of vignettes that take place over the course of several decades, and each is told from the perspective of one member of an extended family. Each of the characters becomes aware over the course of their stor... morey that they have a superpower of some sort, and their reactions to these discoveries are unbelievably mild. The writing style is pretentious at some points and unclear at others. Adding to my frustration, each story ended just as it was getting interesting, and later stories answered only some of the questions readers were left with from earlier stories. The final chapter went a little of the way toward correcting some of my issues with the book, but not enough for me to recommend this one to anyone. less

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