Rea's review
Poppy Shakespeare
by Clare Allan
Rea's review
Poppy Shakespeare by Clare Allan
Rea's review
rating:
This book is meant to portray how mental patients are treated and how, just perhaps it is not them that are mad, but the hospital and society itself. Fine, but it was badly executed.
First of all you're never quite sure what year it is, as the writting style and descriptions seem old-fashion but then there are references to ebay. Also I feel it is very British-audience centred.
Secondly the names are ridiculous! Poppy Shakespeare, Veronica Salmon, Tony Balaclava, Ministry of Madness, seriously sounds more like a Monty Python episode.
I can idenitfy what the author was aiming to explain, but felt it failed and was too obvious and blunt. The only part I did like was how the protagonist's ulitmate insult to everyone was "showing them the back of my head".
First of all you're never quite sure what year it is, as the writting style and descriptions seem old-fashion but then there are references to ebay. Also I feel it is very British-audience centred.
Secondly the names are ridiculous! Poppy Shakespeare, Veronica Salmon, Tony Balaclava, Ministry of Madness, seriously sounds more like a Monty Python episode.
I can idenitfy what the author was aiming to explain, but felt it failed and was too obvious and blunt. The only part I did like was how the protagonist's ulitmate insult to everyone was "showing them the back of my head".
