Lex's review
The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold
I'm currently reading this book and feel compelled to comment on it before I finish it. I am reading this book literally back-to-back with The Lovely Bones -- which I enjoyed enough to look into Sebold's other books -- but I find myself dismayed (disappointed?) with it.
Sebold has repeated imagery used in The Lovely Bones, practically verbatim. She's also reused surnames of characters. Initially I assumed this was to make some sort of callback to The Lovely Bones, implying this Stolfutz fellow was a relative of the couple who owned Stolfutz field from The Lovely Bones. But later it seemed he was just a throw-away character with a recycled name. Annoying!
Something about these characters makes me hold them at arms' length. I don't get to know them through their actions or recollections. However, I don't really want to.
At this point I'm plodding through the rest of the book out of duty and perhaps a sick fascination of how to make this seemingly aimless story end, marv...more
Sebold has repeated imagery used in The Lovely Bones, practically verbatim. She's also reused surnames of characters. Initially I assumed this was to make some sort of callback to The Lovely Bones, implying this Stolfutz fellow was a relative of the couple who owned Stolfutz field from The Lovely Bones. But later it seemed he was just a throw-away character with a recycled name. Annoying!
Something about these characters makes me hold them at arms' length. I don't get to know them through their actions or recollections. However, I don't really want to.
At this point I'm plodding through the rest of the book out of duty and perhaps a sick fascination of how to make this seemingly aimless story end, marv...more
