Shannon's review
Burning Bright
by Tracy Chevalier
That's too bad - I've liked her books in the past. I enjoyed "The Lady and the Unicorn" and "Virgin Blue" (if I got those titles right). I'll steer clear of this one.
Shannon's review
Burning Bright by Tracy Chevalier
Shannon's review
rating:
recommended for: people who like terrible books
This book was a big disappointment--a fictionalized account of part of William Blake's life that is tedious and uninspired. The author focuses on the period when Blake was writing Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience--so to represent the innocence--she uses a country boy newly arrived in London--for the experience--the feisty daughter of a laundress, who actually says about Blake "Him and his opposites...". Painful. The whole story seemed slapdash and amateurish. You may say that the problem lies in the genre of fictionalized historical accounts, and you may be right--although I am reading one of Nureyev's life (one that I turned up my nose at first) and it is everything that this book wasn't.
That's too bad - I've liked her books in the past. I enjoyed "The Lady and the Unicorn" and "Virgin Blue" (if I got those titles right). I'll steer clear of this one.