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Pros & Cons

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Pros

Human nature is nicely showcased. It is everything the glowing reviews say it is. Absolute perfection, in my opinion.

The main one is how plot/tension is done. This springs from the characters. Each choice grows in seriousness till the *. The non-dialogue narrative is a fun documentary style.

Norrell comes from faerie to pluck the prime minister's young wife from death. Strange is an enigmatic antagonist who really steals the show.



Cons

The book is illegible. It rambles on and on, chapter after chapter, pointless footnote after pointless footnote.

This book is less about magic, and more about the preposterous attitudes of the upper class of britain in the time of the wars with napoleon. The drudgery that is the rest of the book is the only explanation as to why this book has such high reviews. ...  Read More

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Highlights

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Quality


So i was happy with the product


I had seen the bbc series and enjoyed it so i wanted to continue the experience with the book


I found the whole set up with the two women and the two magicians to be a hugely frustrated misuse of dramatic irony


In fact the character who is mentioned most with the greatest focus is never given a name and only visibly appears for a brief...  Read More

Price


If you are looking for a vacation that costs the price of a book this is it


Vinculus is a minor character but also has an arc

Packaging/appearance


Anyway good book but be advised that ordering any book on amazon as a gift may result in having to return it because their pack...  Read More

Competitiveness


Norrell and jonathan stranges teacherpupil to competition relationship gets me every time


I was not merely fascinated by the competition but was entranced by the multitude of unique characters populating the fantasy w...  Read More


This being said it must be understood that their personal competition requires the telling of a good number of subplots in orde...  Read More


Its in the final 300ish pages that clarkes giftedness in building such a detailed novel begins to reveal itself

Overview

  • How are reviewers describing this item?
    magic, strange, long and novel.
  • Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
  • Our engine has determined that the review content quality is high and informative.
  • Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.
  • This product had a total of 10,812 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 5 2023.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Not a love story which is awesome


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    There were times when i was a little bored maybe because mr


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    But those moments were few and only in the beginning


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    This line sums things up about the two main characters 34and the name of one shall be fearfulness


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    And the name of the other shall be arrogance


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Not the harry potter type with wands and so forth but a more restrained type of magic relying heavily on books of or about past magicians


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Also authors like to describe things and in many other books i am thinking 34here goes the author describing the scene34 whereas in this book there is tremendously more to describe yet i am not noticing the author


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    That is not the fabulous accomplishment of this truly outstanding work of novelist artistry

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