La Treccia

Goodness, what a dreadful book ! The kind of novel where you know exactly what is going to happen in the next pages. It is a prectictable story with absolutely no subtlety and a huge amount of good feelings! The 3 main caracters are pure stereotypes of themselves. I do not understand the success of

Maybe this is a good screenplay (the author is screenwriter after all, which you can guess by her style), but as a novel it isn't impressive. On the other hand, it kept me turning the pages, so it can't be completely bad.

3.49 stars I feel like I could write two very different reviews of The Braid. Version 1: The Braid is a very readable short novel that had me fully engaged from beginning to end. There are three strands to the story which appear to be completely separate but come together in the end – like a braid, of Leggi tutto

Full disclosure, I just finished it because it only had a few pages and I had to practice my French. This book was horrible. It took me a month to finish it although it only has 230 pages. It is tremendously boring and flat. The three women protagonists had no importance for me, I did not feel any em Leggi tutto

Diese Geschichte hat mich ab der ersten Seite abgeholt. Drei Frauen (Smita, Giulia und Sarah) auf drei Kontinenten mit jeweils ihren eigenen Lebenswegen. Und doch vereint sie eine Gemeinsamkeit: Haare. Ergreifend und wunderbar ist die Erzählung. Die Schicksale der drei Frauen sind nachvollziehbar und Leggi tutto