jooya

I was shocked at how poorly written this book was. The author has won awards for other books. I hope they were written better than this was. The book takes place during the French Revolution. It has a great storyline just poorly put together. Yann is a gypsy who can read minds and throw his voice which he does in a stage act with a Magician and a dwarf who has his own "supernatural" talents. Meanwhile there is a very crafty bad guy who kills people and leaves behind a red garnet necklace which if worn would look like a slashed throat. He has been extremely generous with many very unwise people and is now about to call in his debts. The author would just throw in melodramatic sentences where there was no preamble or followup. For example, a young girl is looking out a convent window on a rainy scene and is sad because she can't remember the face of her dead mother. That's it. No statements before that she is thinking about her mother, no statements after. That was the way it was throughout the book. I don't recommend this book to anyone because it shouldn't have been printed as is.

2022-12-14 08:23