Elizabeth's review
The Magician's Assistant
by Ann Patchett
Elizabeth's review
The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett
Elizabeth's review
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couldn-t-finish
I liked this book at first because it was well written and was just so odd. Odd characters and a plot-line that was unlike any other book I'd read. But what started out as unique soon showed itself to be just plain contrived. The story was both unbelievable, phony and dull all at once. The characters were vapid and it was difficult to relate to the main voice, Sabine, let alone care about what happened to her. It felt for awhile that something big was building up and I kept waiting for a high-intensity magical LA disaster, but instead the story took a turn for the dull-drums. When I left off about half way through the book, Sabine had gone to visit her dead gay non-sexual life partner's long lost family in Nebraska in winter-time, which really just killed the glamour of the whole thing. In all fairness, maybe that was the point, but I just couldn't pick it up again.
