https://cuindependent.com/2012/10/12/hit-or-miss-j-k-rowlings-the-casual-vacancy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hit-or-miss-j-k-rowlings-the-casual-vacancy Sun, 21 Apr 2013 17:17:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.3 https://cuindependent.com/2012/10/12/hit-or-miss-j-k-rowlings-the-casual-vacancy/#comment-10090 Sun, 21 Apr 2013 17:17:02 +0000 http://www.cuindependent.com/?p=37441#comment-10090 The book draws on a mediocre base story riddled with excruciating details on a lot of things , yet was not very effective to get the characters to strike a chord with the reader. One can see that the children’s book writer still carries the writing style of the harry potter series into this book, which at many points feels superfluous.. because the details are not really helping in building the characters better or contributing much to the essence of the story.
My feeling is that, this book attempted to be a little dark and focus on grey characters and wanted to oscillate readers on identifying with different shades of their grey, but then it doesn’t really have the element to captivate the reader and fails to get the intended effect going. Post reading half the book, anyone who watches movies and soaps can predict where the story is going and the book loses it’s novelty.

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