I wish there was a half star option because I think this book is more realistic allh a 3.5 star read rather than four, but the prise won me over so I rounded up.
Some spoilers, but I'll try for not too many, some you find out in the first few pages!
The Beauty of Impossible Things is such an appropriate title for this book. It follows the story of Natasha, a fifteen year old girl who lives in a holiday town and who has the gift of precognition. Gift is probably the wrong word given her mother's decisively negative responses to her premonitions, which in turn impacts Natahsa's willingness.to talk about them or share them. At least initially.
Events occur in the town that cause her gift not only to become common knowledge and widely talked about, but also necessary in the search for a missing person.
This was a good yarn, and had the potential to be great, however there are some things that felt unresolved. And the dialogue. At times it is beautiful to read, it's poetic and precise and eloquent. However there are conversations that feel less like the conversations of teens in the 1980s (I presume) and more like teens in the 1880s. Its was laboured and at times overly formal, at others like it was children talking to each other. Then cut to Natasha having conversations that showed such depth and insight that it seemed like it was two different characters.
I did definitely enjoy reading reading it, it was a very speedy read. Not as satisfying as The Temple House Vanishing, however.
Some spoilers, but I'll try for not too many, some you find out in the first few pages!
The Beauty of Impossible Things is such an appropriate title for this book. It follows the story of Natasha, a fifteen year old girl who lives in a holiday town and who has the gift of precognition. Gift is probably the wrong word given her mother's decisively negative responses to her premonitions, which in turn impacts Natahsa's willingness.to talk about them or share them. At least initially.
Events occur in the town that cause her gift not only to become common knowledge and widely talked about, but also necessary in the search for a missing person.
This was a good yarn, and had the potential to be great, however there are some things that felt unresolved. And the dialogue. At times it is beautiful to read, it's poetic and precise and eloquent. However there are conversations that feel less like the conversations of teens in the 1980s (I presume) and more like teens in the 1880s. Its was laboured and at times overly formal, at others like it was children talking to each other. Then cut to Natasha having conversations that showed such depth and insight that it seemed like it was two different characters.
I did definitely enjoy reading reading it, it was a very speedy read. Not as satisfying as The Temple House Vanishing, however.