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Title: Miracle CreekAuthor: Angie Kim
Published: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 354
Rating: 3/5
Summary:
In a small town in Virginia, a group of people brought together by being a part of a special treatment centre come together at a trial a year after an explosion happens at the centre, a tragedy that very clearly was not an accident.
Review:
This is a book I was very excited to read because it seemed like the perfect book for me, and in the end, it was good but not as great as I had hoped it would be.
I loved getting to know our characters in here and I like how we read the story from all of these different perspectives and we get to see how the different characters think, feel and we slowly peel back the layers to see what they're all hiding. They're complicated and sometimes unlikeable, but so fascinating to read about. I like the setting and I like a lot of themes, especially the exploration of culture and being an immigrant in America; I think those parts were so well written and really interesting.
I think this book is too long though and it honestly felt like a bit of a slog to get through; most of the book takes place in the courtroom and I wonder if it would've been more engaging we had a bit less of that, although I don't really know. There was just something about the way this is written that made me progressively lose more and more interest, and I had to push myself to pick this book up. You know that thing when you're reading and you start flipping pages to see how far you've got left before the chapter ends? I did that a lot with this.
There is a bit of a mystery element in here as well, although the focus is very much on the characters, and I think if you're looking for a suspenseful and exciting book, this isn't it; it's a character driven story with the mystery taking the backseat.
So overall, this had a lot of interesting themes and I liked getting to know the characters, but it just dragged out too much for me and ended up being kind of boring.
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