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This was delightful! It was a great holiday story with the right amount of warm fuzzies at the end!! There was a bit of a lull mid-way so I really would rate it 4.5 if I could. But Ms Silva did a great job making the fictional aspect of the story seem like a real possibility. I listened to the audio book and thought Euan Morton did a fabulous job.
I have mixed feelings about this one. The book tells a fanciful version of the writing of A Christmas Carol. I'll say right off that Silva is a good writer... her descriptions of 19th-century London, her general turn of the phrase, and her voice is quite good.
I did have a few gripes, though... chief among them, the cutesy, wink-wink-nudge-nudge Dickens references that permeated the book. "Mine is a bleak house." A street urchin named David Copperfield. The list goes on. I found it to be a little ...more
I did have a few gripes, though... chief among them, the cutesy, wink-wink-nudge-nudge Dickens references that permeated the book. "Mine is a bleak house." A street urchin named David Copperfield. The list goes on. I found it to be a little ...more
Synopsis- Charles Dickens should be looking forward to Christmas. But when his latest book, 'Martin Chuzzlewit', is a flop, his publishers give him an ultimatum. Either he writes a Christmas book in a month or they will call in his debts and he could lose everything. Dickens has no choice but to grudgingly accept ...
Review- This was a fantastic book to read as my final book for the year. It was appropriate for the season being about Dickens's Christmas Carol. It was also fitting as my first tim ...more
Review- This was a fantastic book to read as my final book for the year. It was appropriate for the season being about Dickens's Christmas Carol. It was also fitting as my first tim ...more
A delightful, seasonal listen. I really liked it. Minor complaints, the chapter breaks were always jarring and I think the whining got to be too much at the 1/2 way to 3/4 mark, but overall it was a fun story, particularly for this time of year. Euan Morton did a great job reading it and I think I could become a Samantha Silva groupie if she continues to write books.
I enjoyed this fictional tale of how Charles Dickens came to write A Christmas Carol. I enjoyed the different characters and, although I didn't always like Charles in this story, his interactions and frustrations were so interesting.
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Wrenna Walker
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