Lori
I didn’t know much about the event that is the base this book derived from. I did end up reading a few articles on the event itself and honestly it was more interesting than the book.
It’s slow, very slow. There are quite a few characters to introduce and a few of the backstories are interesting. Very quickly the book becomes about drama and relationships. Longing glances and forbidden desires are interspersed between large blocks of people thinking. They think about why they are there, the difficulties of the road, the dwindling supplies, and gossip of fellow travelers. This I would say is almost 80% of the book.
Despite the large number of characters, different points of view, or even the simply the long length of the novel there is not a lot of character depth. Most things including descriptions of the people are surface level. This person is pretty, or this other person is mean. The backgrounds help but they still feel weightless. The desires of the people, often sexual, are the main driving force of their personalities.
Mostly the book feels like a psychological drama but there are supernatural elements that are forced in. Thoughts and discussions about ‘the hunger’ are constant so much so that you are annoyed at the characters for doing nothing about it. This element was more of an afterthought that added nothing to the story of the original event.
I didn’t know much about the event that is the base this book derived from. I did end up reading a few articles on the event itself and honestly it was more interesting than the book.
It’s slow, very slow. There are quite a few characters to introduce and a few of the backstories are interesting. Very quickly the book becomes about drama and relationships. Longing glances and forbidden desires are interspersed between large blocks of people thinking. They think about why they are there, the difficulties of the road, the dwindling supplies, and gossip of fellow travelers. This I would say is almost 80% of the book.
Despite the large number of characters, different points of view, or even the simply the long length of the novel there is not a lot of character depth. Most things including descriptions of the people are surface level. This person is pretty, or this other person is mean. The backgrounds help but they still feel weightless. The desires of the people, often sexual, are the main driving force of their personalities.
Mostly the book feels like a psychological drama but there are supernatural elements that are forced in. Thoughts and discussions about ‘the hunger’ are constant so much so that you are annoyed at the characters for doing nothing about it. This element was more of an afterthought that added nothing to the story of the original event.