Dawn Ius
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- Verk
- 6
- Medlemmar
- 150
- Popularitet
- #138,700
- Betyg
- 3.3
- Recensioner
- 11
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- 16
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- 1
I was super intrigued by this book and ridiculously excited to see it show up in my mailbox. I really like reading into weird mysteries and seeing new takes on them. Seeing a YA book about it made me even more curious, because YA is such an interesting area of books and the books written for this group tend to go one of two ways.
I found this book rather boring and weird, which made me quite sad. The premise of this book sounded so good and so interesting: We follow Lizzie Borden as she lives with her dysfunctional family and meets a lovely young woman who she is potentially falling in love with. And then tragedy strikes.
I've heard the tale many a times about Lizzie, so I really wanted this book to be a cool and unique take on the story. There was so much going for it, but I think the facilitation of it just didn't hit me right. I wanted to DNF it, but I also really wanted to support a great Canadian author. So I stuck through it, and it took quite a while.
There was tension and sadness and despair, but the plot just felt random. It was a bit jumpy and didn't catch my attention. I think with some fine tuning, this book could do really well for it's audience. I almost wanted more points of views or less jumps. It was sitting in the middle, which just didn't do it for me. With so much rich history behind this story, I think there was a lot that could have been added to give it the 'umph' that this book needed. With all of that in mind, it was just too slow for me. It didn't keep my attention, which is what I'm looking for as a reader.
I think this book is going to be quite the niche book for it's readers. Either you will love it or hate it, and that's okay! Some books are just like that.
One out of five stars.
I received this book for free through Goodreads First Reads.… (mer)