The House at Riverton review
Nov. 21st, 2008 05:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearI hadn't planned on buying The House at Riverton by Kate Morton, so a big thank you to nezumi_sama for buying it for my birthday, as I really enjoyed it.
It's a satisfyingly chunky book, but also an easy read, so it only took me three days to get through it. The story was engaging, the characters interesting, and the structure very impressive. I'm in awe of any author who can take several different timelines and weave them together into a whole that gradually reveals a story without leaving the reader confused.
I'm not as interested in the era of this book as I was with the last one of hers I read, but I preferred the protagonist, and I thought having the same character linking both the past and present storylines was much more effective. Ultimately, the story was very sad, but it was also extremely well written and very absorbing.
It's a satisfyingly chunky book, but also an easy read, so it only took me three days to get through it. The story was engaging, the characters interesting, and the structure very impressive. I'm in awe of any author who can take several different timelines and weave them together into a whole that gradually reveals a story without leaving the reader confused.
I'm not as interested in the era of this book as I was with the last one of hers I read, but I preferred the protagonist, and I thought having the same character linking both the past and present storylines was much more effective. Ultimately, the story was very sad, but it was also extremely well written and very absorbing.
