Alias Grace review
May. 29th, 2009 08:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearAlias Grace is my second Margaret Atwood book this year, and I enjoyed it nearly as much as the first one.
It's incredibly well written and compelling, with an intriguing jigsaw puzzle structure, a wealth of period detail, and interesting characters. I was gripped from the first.
However, the ending was somewhat of a disappointment, as suspenseful plot points disappeared without resolution, one of the major characters acted really stupidly and then just wandered off, and the main thread kind of fizzled out in a rather anti-climactic fashion.
Still, overall, it was an excellent read, and I suppose constrained by actual historical events with regard to how things turned out in the end.
It's incredibly well written and compelling, with an intriguing jigsaw puzzle structure, a wealth of period detail, and interesting characters. I was gripped from the first.
However, the ending was somewhat of a disappointment, as suspenseful plot points disappeared without resolution, one of the major characters acted really stupidly and then just wandered off, and the main thread kind of fizzled out in a rather anti-climactic fashion.
Still, overall, it was an excellent read, and I suppose constrained by actual historical events with regard to how things turned out in the end.
