Book Count (since 1 January 2012)

Book Count (since 1 January 2014): 30

Monday 23 July 2012

The Red House by Mark Haddon

A book about two families who go on holiday together for a week in a countryside cottage.  The writing is very good and this is an enjoyable, if intense, read but the lack of any real character development let this down for me.  In my view, this novel suffered from too many characters and no one single, fully developed voice.  The mother of one of the families, Angela, is probably the most prominant character and so the one that it is easiest to connect with but even she is too indistinct to be powerful.  I still enjoyed this book and it is a good read but it is the writing not the characters or the plot that really elevates this novel above average.

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