Julie's review
Chocolat
by Joanne Harris
Julie's review
Chocolat by Joanne Harris
Julie's review
rating:
This is my book club's book for April. I liked it. It's a quick read, so lyrical it's like poetry, and enough of a mystery and suspense to keep my interested. (Plus, it made me hungry for chocolate.)
I liked how the protagonist and antagonist stayed true throughout. Neither one wavers or changes, where all the characters around them are affected. I loved the mystery elements too. And I loved how the priest is so sympathetic while also just so...wrong. Evil, even, but in the way that people are evil, not the way that novel characters are.
I've never seen the movie, by the way, and until this month I hadn't read the book either. I couldn't figure out why I hadn't read it until I caught the copywrite -- 1999. Oh yeah. Alex's first year. I was so sleep-deprived I could hardly read a headline.
I liked how the protagonist and antagonist stayed true throughout. Neither one wavers or changes, where all the characters around them are affected. I loved the mystery elements too. And I loved how the priest is so sympathetic while also just so...wrong. Evil, even, but in the way that people are evil, not the way that novel characters are.
I've never seen the movie, by the way, and until this month I hadn't read the book either. I couldn't figure out why I hadn't read it until I caught the copywrite -- 1999. Oh yeah. Alex's first year. I was so sleep-deprived I could hardly read a headline.
