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A review by laragato
Mary Rose by Geoffrey Girard
3.0
I'm giving this book a 3 star review because even after some time I'm still not sure how I feel about it. I'm a big fan of ghost stories, and so it caught my attention, and it held it for a long time. The story, the mystery, is one of those that leaves you wanting to know more at the end of each page, and makes it hard to put the book down for a second.
However, the writing was awful. In my opinion at least. The style is inconsistent, as if the author were trying to decide whether he wanted to be formal or colloquial, and in an attempt to make British characters sound "British", he puts together sentences that make no sense and sound weird or too wordy for a 21st century setting. And yet, he drops way too many pronouns to be congruent with this extremely flourished writing - nobody drops their "the's" as much as all these characters do.
This type of unpolished writing spoiled the whole experience for me, and even if the story gripped me, I found myself being pulled from the story by forced dialogue and unlikely phrasing.
All in all... a good read. I don't know. Was it a good read?
However, the writing was awful. In my opinion at least. The style is inconsistent, as if the author were trying to decide whether he wanted to be formal or colloquial, and in an attempt to make British characters sound "British", he puts together sentences that make no sense and sound weird or too wordy for a 21st century setting. And yet, he drops way too many pronouns to be congruent with this extremely flourished writing - nobody drops their "the's" as much as all these characters do.
This type of unpolished writing spoiled the whole experience for me, and even if the story gripped me, I found myself being pulled from the story by forced dialogue and unlikely phrasing.
All in all... a good read. I don't know. Was it a good read?