Elvira M. (spicedlatte) reviewed Strands of Bronze and Gold (Strands of Bronze and Gold, Bk 1) on + 15 more book reviews
What was supposed to be an amazing and extravagant retelling of Bluebeard turned out to be a dull comparison even to a simple, average Fiction book.
When an author decides to do a retelling of any tale, there needs to be some sort of criteria that makes it exciting, breathtaking, and memorizing. The only thing that was exciting about this book was the ending (with about 5 pages of chasing and stabbing)..
Monsieur Bernard de Cressac (a.k.a. Bluebeard) was a creepy and pedophile-ish Frenchman who gave me the shivers so thumps up on that. I couldnt find him charming at any point of the book but Im not sure if it was the writing or the bad accent of narrator. Either way if this story would be intriguing, the reader should have been able to fall in love with him at least for a moment to break their hearts later. But that didnt happen.
Jane Nickersons writing is elegant but dull and if this was more of a historian fiction might have worked. But once the story takes turn to be a retelling it captures different kind of audience and in this case the right material just wasnt delivered right.
When an author decides to do a retelling of any tale, there needs to be some sort of criteria that makes it exciting, breathtaking, and memorizing. The only thing that was exciting about this book was the ending (with about 5 pages of chasing and stabbing)..
Monsieur Bernard de Cressac (a.k.a. Bluebeard) was a creepy and pedophile-ish Frenchman who gave me the shivers so thumps up on that. I couldnt find him charming at any point of the book but Im not sure if it was the writing or the bad accent of narrator. Either way if this story would be intriguing, the reader should have been able to fall in love with him at least for a moment to break their hearts later. But that didnt happen.
Jane Nickersons writing is elegant but dull and if this was more of a historian fiction might have worked. But once the story takes turn to be a retelling it captures different kind of audience and in this case the right material just wasnt delivered right.
