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A review by brisingr
The Christmas Mystery by Jostein Gaarder
2.0
I really thought that I won't make it, that I won't get to read this book this year either. It was a present I received last Christmas, and then I didn't manage to finish it and this year's it's been my winter goal to finish this book on Christmas Eve. And it's almost 8pm and I finally did it. I am not sure if I'd have liked to keep it only halfway read.
The idea was promising. I really liked it and until I've first started reading this book, I didn't know about the existence of advent calendars, so I was double-excited about this book especially because of this.
It started really cutely, but I feel like the simple style didn't exactly helped, because at some point it was tiredsome to keep reading "he said, she said" and seeing a lot of uneeded dialogue lines. I get that it's targeted for the younger audience, and usually this doesn't bother me, but this time it just wasn't my cup of tea.
I thought that the mistery was pretty cool and it was nice how it was brought up and how the author dealt with telling us bits and bits of the story, but the fact that some things kept repeating was... again, not my cup of tea. Also, I didn't like any of the characters that much, which was a huge turn-off about this story. I also get what this story wanted to do, stay spiritual and somewhat with intelectual advices and religious preaches, but I feel like it kind of failed, because those things didn't fit with the general feeling of the book: young and innocent and too little for how much it wanted to give.
The idea was promising. I really liked it and until I've first started reading this book, I didn't know about the existence of advent calendars, so I was double-excited about this book especially because of this.
It started really cutely, but I feel like the simple style didn't exactly helped, because at some point it was tiredsome to keep reading "he said, she said" and seeing a lot of uneeded dialogue lines. I get that it's targeted for the younger audience, and usually this doesn't bother me, but this time it just wasn't my cup of tea.
I thought that the mistery was pretty cool and it was nice how it was brought up and how the author dealt with telling us bits and bits of the story, but the fact that some things kept repeating was... again, not my cup of tea. Also, I didn't like any of the characters that much, which was a huge turn-off about this story. I also get what this story wanted to do, stay spiritual and somewhat with intelectual advices and religious preaches, but I feel like it kind of failed, because those things didn't fit with the general feeling of the book: young and innocent and too little for how much it wanted to give.