Kerry Young
Autor(a) de Pao
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Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1955
- Sexo
- female
- Local de nascimento
- Kingston, Jamaica
- Locais de residência
- England
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 9
- Membros
- 197
- Popularidade
- #111,410
- Avaliação
- 3.5
- Críticas
- 33
- ISBN
- 21
- Línguas
- 1
I came to it full of hope and interest in it but found after a while that it just didn't grab me in the way I hoped. My first major bug-bear is the way Young writes using the accents quite often. After a while I found this quite irritating and in certain parts of the book it was hard to follow. Apart from that I just found it to be a bit flat. The story as a whole was ok but apart from Pao I didn't really feel involved with any of the characters.
The big redeeming feature of the book for me was the tie in with Jamaican history. The changing face of the country was well portrayed albeit from just one point of view. The Sun Tzu quotes fit in with the story well but can get a little tiresome after a while. There was little descriptive detail to the characters and setting to really grab me although that may well be down to the style in which is was written from Pao's point of view.
I really thought that this would be a quick read for me but somehow it just wasn't. I didn't hate it, there were some parts that I liked but all in all I found this a disappointing book.… (mais)