LisaRose's review
Rain of Gold
by Víctor E. Villaseñor
LisaRose's review
Rain of Gold by Víctor E. Villaseñor
LisaRose's review
rating:
bookshelves:
latin-american-authors
recommended for: I wouldn't
Just not getting all the great reviews for this book.
I'm reading it for my book club and ugh! It's plod, plod, plod, trudge, trudge, trudge...one voice for all the main characters, and a simplistic writing style. My fourth graders wrote this way. There's no depth to or challenge in the ideas. While I understand it's a family history/history of the Mexican Revolution & migration of Mexicans into the United States, I believe the writing could have been much more dynamic. Phrases such as "Lupe found her truelove," make me want to gag.
Update:
I've just completed my reading of this tome (and it was a TOME). The author displayed a truly crisp writing style in his 6 1/2 pages of notes. I suspect he didn't need 552 pages to tell his story...perhaps 252..?
I'm reading it for my book club and ugh! It's plod, plod, plod, trudge, trudge, trudge...one voice for all the main characters, and a simplistic writing style. My fourth graders wrote this way. There's no depth to or challenge in the ideas. While I understand it's a family history/history of the Mexican Revolution & migration of Mexicans into the United States, I believe the writing could have been much more dynamic. Phrases such as "Lupe found her truelove," make me want to gag.
Update:
I've just completed my reading of this tome (and it was a TOME). The author displayed a truly crisp writing style in his 6 1/2 pages of notes. I suspect he didn't need 552 pages to tell his story...perhaps 252..?
