Review: One the edge of something....
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 7, 2013
Place of many birds puts the reader in the author’s concept of Australia circa late 40’s to early 60’s. With the exception habitual reliance on run on sentences, I found the characters believable, the interactions appropriate and the settings distinct. It was an easy read.But I kept waiting for a moment, scene or circumstance to draw me into the world, rather than just observe it. The stories did not excite me, depress me or involve me. They were not bad, but they are plain. The author is talented and vivid in her descriptions, but she would have been served by more plot in each story. I kept waiting for a “Stand by Me” or “To kill a mockingbird” moment that would lend some sort of relevance to the story. Something that would make it more than a diary of observation, but in the end, it was not to be.I hope the author takes her talents, along with her love for the time and place, and tells me a story of the people she shows me. Not just the who, when and where...but the why and the why not.