Lorie's review of The Reserve
The Reserve by Russell Banks
Lorie's review
rating:
bookshelves:
historical-fiction,
mystery,
unfinished
status:
Read in March, 2008
I was so looking forward to this book. *sigh* It is a small book full of sweeping scenery and descriptions of action; so much so that it feels to me like a book written to make the screenplay easier. Banks spent so much time telling me how the story was unfolding and why people were acting certain ways that he didn't let me get to know the characters. And with all the numerous pages of description of the Adirondacks, I never once felt myself swept there ~ and I know how that feels, as my family has a camp on a small lake deep in the heart of them. I gave it 145 pages and finally gave up.
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