Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague | Geraldine Brooks | Excellent, emotional well written...

Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague | Geraldine Brooks | Five Stars But For the Ending

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Year of Wonders: A...

	Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague Geraldine Brooks Viking Adult, 2001 - 400 pages average customer review:based on 315 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Excellent, emotional well written novel... until the end.

I completely fell in love with this novel. I cried, I actually shed tears at the end of one of the chapters. The thing that stood out the most for me in "Year of Wonders" was the vocabulary. She really did her research to really make reading this novel feel like you were actually talking or at least watching this grim part of history happen.

But then all of a sudden the book just fell apart. The last chapter had so much happen in it, it was just laughable. Like the author was on some kind of deadline and had to get it done in an hour. She could have left the whole last chapter out. I didn't understand it at all.

All in all, it still needs a good review, because it really was a good novel. I will recommend it at my work.

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Five Stars But For the Ending

I won't give a synopsis of the book as that has already been done. I loved this book. The writing was lyrical and I even cried in a few spots. The problem was the ending. My reaction was "What?". How did we go from this beautiful book to this? I would still recommend the book and am glad I read it.

Gripping reading

Year of Wonders was a really compelling read. I loved the detail of ordinary life in a remote 17th century English village and really rooted for Anna, the main character. All the characters were very well drawn and the action was believable and moving.

My only problem with the book is the bizarre ending which seemed to take it in a 180 degree direction off into Romance Novel Land. The effect was to jerk me out of my belief in the characters and send me wondering what got into the author. And, no-- I'm not talking about the sex, as one reviewer was. I found that believable and satisfying (it's the 17th century, not the Victorian era, and these people were not Puritans!)-- until the sudden and not terribly believable reversal afterwards.

I won't give it away and hope it won't discourage anyone from reading the book. I gave it four stars because the first 90% is so very good. The last bit has all been crammed into the final ten pages or so, so it's pretty easy to mentally excise from the rest of the novel.

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Some weighty issues

I finished this book last night. It is a two day read. It was good up until the sex parts that sounded like it came from the imagination of a depressed housewife. Seriously, are we to believe a puritan type would climb on top? If it had stuck to the historical facts it would have been much better and the ending was plain out silly. Won't say what it was but you will know what I mean when you get there.

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