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A review by bobinsbooknook
Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold by Bolu Babalola
Did not finish book. Stopped at 39%.
Sadly I just couldn’t really get into this book.
I felt that whilst the writing was beautiful in places and very poetic at times it was also incredibly descriptive which left very little movement in the short stories.
Having completed the 5th short story in this book it started to become a little repetitive. Whilst the technical plot is different they are all very much the same:
1) Girl/boy meets girl/boy falls instantly in love at first sight
2) some small inconvenience
3) end up together anyway
I think this book would be better appreciated but a different type of reader than myself.
The main decision to DNF this on the basis that each story started to feel too predictable and whilst ‘the love at first sight’ scenes are well written just started to leave me bored.
I felt that whilst the writing was beautiful in places and very poetic at times it was also incredibly descriptive which left very little movement in the short stories.
Having completed the 5th short story in this book it started to become a little repetitive. Whilst the technical plot is different they are all very much the same:
1) Girl/boy meets girl/boy falls instantly in love at first sight
2) some small inconvenience
3) end up together anyway
I think this book would be better appreciated but a different type of reader than myself.
The main decision to DNF this on the basis that each story started to feel too predictable and whilst ‘the love at first sight’ scenes are well written just started to leave me bored.