The Dew Breaker Blog Dos
November 14th, 2006 cdonohu1
I am not too sure how I feel about this novel. I enjoyed the last chapter, but im not sure the payoff was enough. The novel doesnt really go anywhere. It consists of these seemingly disjointed stories, that do eventually connect, but basically just by coincidence. There just isnt a whole story here. It attempts to be a full s, but the connections arent enough. For example the first chapter of the book is about the barber and his daughter going to sell a piece of her art work to a movie star; by the end of the novel i had just about forgotten about that story and the two following it becasue it really didnt matter in the end.
Another thing about the book that bothered me, that is along the same lines as what i stated before, is the story “Seven.” It seems like the only purpose that story was to introduce charactors who later in the novel had chapters dedicated to them. And maybe im not as smaryt as other peoplen who read this book but what is the point of the “Bridal Seamstress” chapter. To me, i think the book could have done just as well without it, but maybe i didnt catch the connection made in the story.
Maybe the whole book is just supposed to be a story of revolution in Haiti. Maybe the connections arent that important, either way it didnt work for me. I really didnt care about the charactors becasue not enough time was given to them. Therefore the stories seemed to me to be pointless. Maybe i just didnt get it.
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