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PrimaGigi
Jul 19, 2015PrimaGigi rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
When Barry Fairbrother suddenly dies in his forties, the idyllic town of Pagford is left in total shock. Pagford is, seemingly, peaceful English town, with cobbled streets, a market square and a abandoned abbey, but beneath all the peace lies a town at odds. A war is brewing between family and friends, Pagford might not be as charming as it seems. The empty seat left by Barry on the parish council is the spark that ignites the whole blaze. Who will win the seat among deceit and intrigue. I understand the need for writers to branch out to seem versatile and have diversity within their writing. That they can tackle any subject and should not be pigeonholed within the genre that made them famous. If you are expecting J.K. Rowling to hold up the book with her superior wit and creative structure within only a few daft sentences, please don't read this book. I wouldn't have read this book if it wasn't J.K. Rowling, I didn't expect another Harry Potter adaptation and respected that she wanted to branch out. I felt that because she was so amazingly wonderful at building a story and holding you in, this would be nothing for her. I was wrong. J.K. is so busy trying to show that's she not that J.K., but this J.K.; The subject is denser, but she misses the mark and leaves the story-telling and the story by the wayside. There are too many people, the chapters are cut into small vignettes and once you learn about something new, you are bombarded with another issue or third character from the first part, talking or meeting the fifth character from the second part of the third chapter. The whole premise seems like it's meant to confuse you as some type of layered intrigue. The characters themselves are bland and contrived. There is not a singular person you would root for and that's disappointing since J.K. has the knack for making you care for even the worst villain's. It seems she just made a rough draft an entire novel and wrote up whatever came to mind that sounded risque or outre. I personally wouldn't have bothered to read this as far as I tried to. If you expect to read this, hoping for one of her famous techniques to punch you in the gut or send tingles down your spine, that brings all her stories together. All you get is mild distaste. I won't give up hope. I do believe she can handle different genres from adults to toddlers ABC books and make them magical (not just in the wizard-sense), I just don't think this was the best novel to s