Unabridged Audiobook
There was much I loved about this book. One of the things I loved was the poetic hand of the author. The other side of that double-edged sword was that I felt the author was more poet than a storyteller--I often felt that she made details beautiful and impassioned that were actually irrelevant to the story. This was more of a beautiful read and less of a great story. Of course, she got me thinking of the question of "what is a female text," and my complaint could fall squarely within the fact that this IS a female text, and therefore not what I expect a great story to look like in a patriarchal society. So that's a bit meta. But I have read plenty of great stories by female authors (I primarily, if not exclusively, read female authors), so I think my point stands. The narration was brilliant, and it would be an injustice to read this book with anything other than an Irish narrator.
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