false59010200994888339780099488835205The Ice Queenhttp://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176074553m/590102.jpg
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3502Alice Hoffman33456433412falseMon Aug 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008Thu Aug 07 09:57:51 -0700 2008Mon Aug 11 18:05:12 -0700 2008 This book. It was never ending! The style of the writing was dull. Yes, some of it did have a poetic twist about it, but really? It was depressing. That's pretty much all that can be said for it - the author can force the reader into depression. When I read the main character's emotions, I actually felt like I was on a down spiral. Yes, that's a good skill. But Alice Hoffman doesn't stop! It is all misery. Not just understandable misery, either. Misery about the stupidest, childish things. I couldn't stand another page of it.
I am disappointed. It started like Wicked: The Life And Times Of The Wicked Witch Of The West but it didn't take off, and I felt no connection to the nameless protagonist. I got midway, where Lazarus Jones is talking about his past to the nameless she. I ended up reading one sentence per paragraph and I was still depressed and bored of the lack of emotions.
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(some time later)
So, I did finish it.
It was as anticlimactic as a story without a upward curve of anticipation can be. It wasn't worth the time, even when I only read one sentence in three.