5 reviews for:

Alexandra

Valerie Martin

2.83 AVERAGE

purplefish101's review

3.0

dark mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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 First half is a bit slow. The second half is much more interesting and explored different types of relationship

funnelfiasco's review against another edition

2.75

mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

magicfrank's review against another edition

1.0

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Untterly unbelievable.

teresatumminello's review against another edition

2.0

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I heard Valerie Martin say that she thought this book (her 2nd novel) was wickedly funny, though no one else seemed to think so. If I'd known that at the time I read it, I may have viewed it differently.

octavia_cade's review against another edition

2.0

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Well-written, with some lovely passages, yet I couldn't warm to it. The characters are nearly all mildly unpleasant, but I think my real disconnect from the book lies with the main character.

I don't have to like a protagonist but I need to find something interesting about them, and that need is even more crucial when a story's written in the first person, as this is. Claude, our hero, is rather flabbily self-indulgent and absolutely devoid of humour. I simply didn't care what happened to him, and couldn't understand why any of the other characters did. That's a problem that can't be surmounted, to my mind - quite different from the wonderful Mary Reilly, also written by Martin. Hard to believe they're from the same author.