Kate Hamer
Autore di The Girl in the Red Coat
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Informazioni generali
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Welsh
- Nazione (per mappa)
- Wales
- Luogo di nascita
- Wales, UK
- Istruzione
- Aberystwyth University (MA Creative Writing|2014)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 4
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 740
- Popolarità
- #34,321
- Voto
- 3.4
- Recensioni
- 52
- ISBN
- 58
- Lingue
- 4
I have had this book languishing on my shelf for some time and finally decided to pick it up. It appears to be marketed as a crime / mystery novel, but I think that that’s a bit misleading; there is certainly a crime, but very little mystery. From the reader’s point of view, we know exactly what has happened to Carmel, and why. I’m not sure if this is the reason I was somewhat underwhelmed at first – because I was perhaps expecting something different? Either way, the first half of the book was readable, but was never a can’t-put-down story for me. It did improve in the second half but still wasn’t one of those books that you just can’t get enough of.
The chapters are told alternately by the Beth and Carmel, and we follow them throughout their attempts to make sense of their new lives – their ‘new normal’ as it were. I found Beth’s story considerably more interesting than Carmel’s and also found Beth to be far more believable as a character.
The story did hold my attention well enough for me to want to finish the book, and I can definitely see that some people would love it, but in the end for me it wasn’t a bad read, just not as good as I would have hoped.… (altro)