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| Genre/Form: | Legal stories Fiction |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Hoffman, Alice. Blue diary. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2001 (OCoLC)603716390 |
| Material Type: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Alice Hoffman |
| ISBN: | 0399148027 9780399148026 |
| OCLC Number: | 46501135 |
| Description: | 303 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Responsibility: | Alice Hoffman. |
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Great Premise - Mediocre Execution
Blue Diary is the first Alice Hoffman novel I've read. I really had high hopes, and I hate to say that I was underwhelmed with this novel. The premise was fascinating. Ethan Ford / Bryon Bell committed a heinous crime but then "became a new person"...
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Blue Diary is the first Alice Hoffman novel I've read. I really had high hopes, and I hate to say that I was underwhelmed with this novel. The premise was fascinating. Ethan Ford / Bryon Bell committed a heinous crime but then "became a new person" by moving to a new city and new state, meeting the love of his life, and becoming a hero. The past, of course, catches up with him, and this book explores several people's reactions to finding out someone they know, love, and admire actually has a very dark past. Sounds great. However, I feel like by the end I never really understood anyone's true reaction to what had happened. We get to spend very little time with Ethan/Bryon, we learn more about Ehtan's wife Jorie's fascination with flowers than we do her feelings about her husband, and Collie -- their son -- is a complete mystery. Each chapter just showed us a new person acting sullen about what had happened but never really delving into their feelings about it. I feel none of the characters were really dynamic. None of the conversations between characters were really fleshed out. Their motivations were never fully explored. I feel like I saw the town through a haze rather than a close-up look at people's reactions to a horrible revelation.
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