Audrey's review
The Girl with No Shadow: A Novel
by Joanne Harris
Audrey's review
The Girl with No Shadow: A Novel by Joanne Harris
Audrey's review
rating:
Pure yumminess in book form. At first I wasn't sure I was going to enjoy the alternating first-person narrators, but once I'd separated their voices (which was pretty easy to do), I really liked it. I kept thinking that I must've forgotten a lot from the previous book, because there were references that kept being made that I couldn't remember, but then all of that cleared up about 2/3 through the novel. So you'll have to be somewhat patient.
Aside from those little quibbles, this was perfect. I am always amazed at how Harris can conjure up this timeless, dreamy, old-world feeling in her novels -- it is sometimes jarring to me to see references to current technology, such as cell phones and digital cameras and things like that. The mood and setting are so evocative here that I forget this is a book set in the here and now.
Aside from those little quibbles, this was perfect. I am always amazed at how Harris can conjure up this timeless, dreamy, old-world feeling in her novels -- it is sometimes jarring to me to see references to current technology, such as cell phones and digital cameras and things like that. The mood and setting are so evocative here that I forget this is a book set in the here and now.
