Rating: 3/5
Review:
Disappointing
I’m afraid I didn’t get on nearly as well with His Bloody Project
as many people did and in the end I was disappointed in it.
There are good
things about the book: the narrative voice is well done and largely
convincing, Graeme Macrae Burnet paints a compelling picture of the
hardship and repression of mid-19th-Century crofting life, the
landscape is beautifully evoked and so on. However, I found that the
slowness which at times seemed almost self-indulgent combined with an
unremitting bleakness made it a tough, almost turgid read. I enjoyed
the first hundred pages or so, but began to get very bogged down and
eventually just slogged my way to the finish.
The quality of the
writing and the atmosphere make this worthy of three stars, but for
me it was a disappointment.
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