Review: Strange use of words...
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 14, 2014
This was an adventure in lyrical strangeness. I might have enjoyed the book but for the written word. Weird you say? More than you think. A good story can often be ruined by the words used in the telling. I think the author had good intentions but waxed too lyrical and thinking that was the way to go, went overboard and completely drowned the story. Sometimes simplicity in story telling is better. The choice of words used and the way she strung sentences together were a huge distraction. Perfectly nice words but they distracted rather than added to the story. Bottom line for me, the writing got in the way that it may take me a month to finish the book if I can suffer through it.Another annoying point - the author's use of the words 'young man' in reference to Cliff. He is 20+ years younger than his love interest Pyotr and that point was made in the beginning. However, the author felt it necessary to remind us of the age difference ad nauseum that you want to scream 'What the hell is your point?' Over and over and over... Grrrrrr!!! I do like some of her later works but this one should be a 'Do Over'. (less)