I just don’t get the hype. It felt a bit like a smidge of The Blue Lagoon meets a heaping serving of Nell and a cuppa Good Will Hunting. This isn’t one of those situations where I didn’t get the hype and don’t like the book. It’s a good book, a solid story really, and I enjoyed it, but the hype . ...
Fiction / Coming of Age
BOOK REVIEW: The Crooked Path by Irma Joubert
The drawbacks I had with Child of the River were much less prevalent in The Crooked Path. I think partly as Child was audio book and this was eBook, but also I think this one was less political, and I was somewhat already introduced to some of the non-American names and places prior, so it clicked ...
BOOK REVIEW: Child of the River by Irma Joubert
I think, for me, something got lost in translation with this book. First, the book was translated to English, then I picked up the audio version, and here I am feeling like I missed something big and broad. But I did get the smaller and important . . . I think. Set in South ...