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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A great read.,
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This review is from: Sophie (Paperback)
Sophie by Guy Burt has to be one of the most haunting books i have read in a long time. Its a complex and sometimes confusing story of sophie and her younger brother mattie and the events of their childhood. Ending the summer before sophie is to go away to boarding school. Mattie adores sophie and she mattie. They are more like an extention of each other than their own individual person. Sophie is extremely intelligent, and takes very good care of herself and her brother. Their mother is a recluse and their father stays away on business. The way the author remembers being a child, not just how one acted, but thought and felt as well, if profound to me. He definetly has a fascination with childhood innocence and ultimatly its loss. As I got towards the end of the book i read slower and more carefully and i think this truly helped me to understand what was being revealed at such a fast pace. I did have to go back and re-read certain parts for clarity but he does leave unanswered questions. The author leaves you with the limited knowledgs of the characters personalties and lets you decide exactly what happened. How those characters would have acted. I shared this with a friend and it was very helpful having another persons opinions and ideas. It helped me to put more pieces of the puzzle together. I definetly recommend this book. It was a fairly quick read. One i had a really hard time putting down.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Disturbing. Slow to GET to the end, which is confusing.,
By Dagger (Oregon, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sophie (Paperback)
The author took a WHOLE LONG TIME to get to the point. And then, I wasn't even positive what was going on once we got there.
If I really cared about understanding more about Sophie and Mattie, I'd probably reread sections to try and figure out more. But I don't care. Sophie's decision makes NO sense to me. None. Nada. Perhaps I needed to read her quarry books to understand her, but alas, no such luck. Then again, they helped Mattie very little, as he's still TOTALLY CONFUSED BY SOPHIE AS WELL, so I can't say her diaries would help me. I found the dialogue quite strange. I understand that Sophie is highly intelligent, but even the things Andy and Steve said were strange and unlikely. I felt the dialogue was highly unrealistic. I had a difficult time picturing the quarry and the "cages." Overall ... bah. Glad I read it, but I can't say I'd recommend it to too many people.
5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Worst book ever,
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This review is from: Sophie (Paperback)
I cannot express how much i hated this book. It starts out really interesting and keeps your attention and like all books you assume at the end there will be some sort of conclusion to the whole thing, where youll find out all the secrets, but no. I seriously think the author got bored and decided not finish the book. I have never read a book that puts in all kinds of secrets and not explain them at all, but this one did. I think Ballantine Books should refund mine and everyone elses money on this one because the editor clearly didnt do his/her job. It should have been sent back to the author with a note: FINISH the book and tell people wtf is going on! And i dont want to hear that its supposed to make you think, i dont want to guess what this entire book is about, in that case i wouldve wrote it myself!
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