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Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015 Alain Mabanckou left Congo in 1989, at the age...
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Gateway to the Heavens: How Geometric Shapes, Patterns and Symbols Form Our Reality
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Simple geometric shapes and symbols combine to make the universal, powerful and sacred model Karen...
Question Time: A Quizzical Journey Round Britain
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Emma (229 KP) rated The Snowmelt River in Books
Mar 10, 2021
At first I struggled with it, for the first 200 pages his over excessive use of description really bugged me and I found myself skim reading parts of it.
And although I really love Irish mythology and folklore, his use of it seemed irrelevant in places. As though he was trying to show off with the amount of folklore he knew.
After a while though the story started to flow better, and it captured my attention a lot more. I connected to the characters more and enjoyed the adventure in the story. There were still parts where I didnt exactly know what was going on. It seemed sometimes that the author was only half including you in the story he was envisioning in his mind.
I also didnt feel there was much need for a love story between two of the teenage characters, I felt that those parts were slightly cringey to read and thought the atory would have evolved just aswell without it included.
In all though I enjoyed it and will read the next installment.