I N C L U D E S A F F I L I A T E L I N K S
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Title: Girl, Woman, OtherAuthor: Bernadine Evaristo
Published: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 464
Rating: 4/5
Summary:
Set in Britain, we follow of cast of twelve different characters and get to see their personal journeys spanning over a century.
Review:
This was really, really good.
It's not easy to write a book with so many characters, but somehow Evaristo pulls it off. I really liked getting to know them and their stories, and it's pretty incredible how the stories somehow manage to link together. I really like the representation of different kinds of people in here, and there are a lot of interesting themes in these stories that I liked, although sometimes I felt like I would've loved to stay for a bit and explore them more instead of moving on to the next character.
The writing style in here is very interesting; it has little punctuation and sometimes veers off towards poetry, and I'm not going to lie, that took me a good while to get into, but when I did, I really liked it and I feel like it suits the book well. It feels fresh and it has an excellent rhythm to it.
There are some things I didn't like as much about this book though; I think sometimes some of the perspectives have too similar of a voice and I think overall, the book is a little too long. In the last third of the book I really felt like it started dragging out, although I did really like the final bit.
I was contemplating wether to give this three stars or four, but I've tipped it up to four because I think this is a really interesting and well accomplished novel, and well worth the read, especially if you like contemporary, literary fiction and you want to meet some interesting characters.
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