A story about Sabrina (not the teenage witch), who has a dinner party with 5 guests, some dead, famous, ex male friends and such like. The narrative develops the characters through switching between the present day dinner party and snapshot chapters of the past, which fills us in on the relationship of each character with Sabrina. The text is well written and the characters build up to be rather unique, there is a reasonable amount of authenticity, but in the first 30 pages I felt the characters were a little shallow.
The main draw in this scenario is the potential to invite some really interesting characters to a dinner party. Sabrina invited her best friend, her dead Dad, Audrey Hepburn, a university professor and a lost love. The plot which unfolded out of this didn’t engage me, it was a little bland, which is mainly because the characters didn’t hold much value to me. What I mean by this is that they were not very interesting. It would have been good if she had invited some interesting historical characters, Atilla the Hun, Ghenghis Khan, Mother Teresa, Pope John Paul II, Isaac Newton. But the personalities were too straight, not enough kinks and personality flaws to reflect.
There is some curiosity on how the story will pan out, there remains scope for a very interesting read. For example, Audrey Hepburn’s character comes across as something out of her character in Breakfast at Tiffany, which indicates that she is a projection from the within the psyche of Sabrina. Perhaps Sabrina is in a coma and this is part of her recovery process, maybe she is hallucinating after having her drink spiked in a club. But I fear that we are just looking at some kind of mid life crisis where Sabrina is dealing with her past and bringing about change in her life to go forward with positivity, along the way forgiving her father and reuniting with her former lover.
The concept is not original, the plot doesn’t engage me, I will not be reading further. However it is well written and for some this will be a good read.
The main draw in this scenario is the potential to invite some really interesting characters to a dinner party. Sabrina invited her best friend, her dead Dad, Audrey Hepburn, a university professor and a lost love. The plot which unfolded out of this didn’t engage me, it was a little bland, which is mainly because the characters didn’t hold much value to me. What I mean by this is that they were not very interesting. It would have been good if she had invited some interesting historical characters, Atilla the Hun, Ghenghis Khan, Mother Teresa, Pope John Paul II, Isaac Newton. But the personalities were too straight, not enough kinks and personality flaws to reflect.
There is some curiosity on how the story will pan out, there remains scope for a very interesting read. For example, Audrey Hepburn’s character comes across as something out of her character in Breakfast at Tiffany, which indicates that she is a projection from the within the psyche of Sabrina. Perhaps Sabrina is in a coma and this is part of her recovery process, maybe she is hallucinating after having her drink spiked in a club. But I fear that we are just looking at some kind of mid life crisis where Sabrina is dealing with her past and bringing about change in her life to go forward with positivity, along the way forgiving her father and reuniting with her former lover.
The concept is not original, the plot doesn’t engage me, I will not be reading further. However it is well written and for some this will be a good read.