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A Quiet Belief in Angels by: R.J. Ellory List Price: £7.99 City Travel Guides Price: £4.98 You Save: £3.01 (38%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780752882635 ISBN: 0752882635 Label: Orion Manufacturer: Orion Number Of Pages: 396 Publication Date: January 02, 2008 Publisher: Orion Studio: Orion Sales Rank: 940 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Left feeling unsatisfiedAfter stumbling across positive reviews for this book and being intrigued by the title, I bought A Quiet Belief in Angels and after the first 3-4 chapters found I was gripped. Unlike some reviewers, I enjoyed the drawn out descriptions of characters and feelings and felt this helped bring a place and an era to life that I've never experienced. Whilst I enjoyed the book I felt it suffered in some key areas. Firstly, we are expected to believe that a murder spree of this magnatitude targetting little girls gets no more attention than a collection of the local small town law enforcement officers who seem to offer nothing in the book other than meeting up occasionally for a coffee and reviewing newspaper clippings. Secondly, character ... Read More: Rating:  - Great book!Brilliant storyline, gets you guessing right till the end, (well I never...) but a little bit too "wordy" with descriptions etc, I had to skip through the long winded bits, but the story/plot... FANTASTIC Rating:  - A Quiet Belief in AngelsAt last! Here is a writer who knows how to evoke the imagination, someone who doesn't write to formula, who describes situations and emotions that you can almost taste. A story about a serial killer told against the tale of a boy's rite of passage.A story of hope and despair,yet uplifting, a story of everyman!Engage your mind and read one of the best books to be published for a long time. Rating: - Very interestingI enjoyed reading this. I don't normally choose this type of fiction, but I found it most interesting. The descriptions are beautiful, parts read more like a poem, and the simple beauty in parts of this novel, lighten the mostly dark and disturbing storyline. I would definately recomend this book, as not only a good thriller, but a poetic, and almost philosiphical read. Rating: - Over ambitious but interestingI was gripped by the first quarter of this book - it is well written and original as it describes the effect on the hero Joseph and his community as young local girls are found brutally murdered. The contrast between the ordinariness of their everyday lives with the horror of the killings and their affect on the impressionable boy promises much. Sadly it loses its way. Some reviewers have compared it to Steinbeck, Harper Lee, even J D Salinger. I don't thinks so - those books resonate universality - they touch you and make you think about your own life. Ellory's story becomes swamped in Vaughan's self-obsessive fatalism but can't make up its mind whether to be great prose tragedy, an insightful coming of age novel about an "artist" or a ... Read More: |
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