how the characters change allows for one person to seem like many. After i finished reading i had to ...
590061
Only planned on reading first few pages and ended up binge reading the whole thing in one sitting. The story is extremely captivating and the constant twist and turns prevented me from putting it down. how the characters change allows for one person to seem like many. After i finished reading i had to sit and think about the story as a whole because i was so engrossed by it. best book i have read in a long time and i highly recommend it.
4344594
I didn't quite know what to expect, but as each chapter introduced a new character and the story became an ever-widening mystery, it also pulled me closer to these profoundly real people. I have a family, and they are often mysterious and confounding and beautiful. The trick is learning to let them tell their story. Like this one.
4184048
This novel is the epic transformation of single family into many individuals.  Kingsolver brillantly writes each chapter from a different character, sometimes muddling the chronological order of events, but purposely and artfully so.  At the end of the novel one becomes so engrossed in the story of these characters that one feels inclined to pick up the pen and continue the story somehow, or perhaps rewrite the mistakes they made...
2705523
It has an array of characters,  I was unable to stop reading .  It b is about people North  of Here.
4796994
I felt like I was getting to know real people in real situations. I liked some, put up with some and wanted to avoid a few. It was sometimes predictable, but then sometimes life is predictable. I was disappointed that the central female character could not trust herself to marry The man of her dreams. Easy to read and I liked it
4828782
Aurelio Zen is turning into one interesting character. Dibdin is expanding his "back story" in this novel and allowing Zen to change  and react to his circumstances. The plot developes gradually and has multi levels that leaves the reader following along with interest. The multilevel plot and complex characters create a novel the can be read slowly and even put down for a while as it stays with the reader.
1448547
Growing up, I struggled to identify with characters in popular media: Characters like me on TV, in Movies, and in Books were conspicuously missing. For the first time in my life, as I read this book, I realized the main character is like me! I was no longer alone, as I found an author who somehow knew the struggles shared by people in my demographic. This novel and the following two in the series were truly emotionally moving for me. This novel changed my life.
401318
It kept my interest and could picture the characters.
780071
There's a lot of characters that are introduced in the beginning of the book and it can be daunting to many. Keep forging ahead because it's well worth it!! I loved the characters and the interactions between the various groups. It's hard to list everything i loved about this book without giving too much away. :)
3739096
This is a tricky book to review, because I don't want to provide spoilers.  Forgive me for being unclear in many ways, but to be concrete would give away too much.

I found myself enjoying this book quite a bit - yes, even the ending (I know many are rolling their eyes at me right about now).  I loved the distinct voices of the characters, and the twists were wonderful.  Just when I thought I knew a certain character, there would be something that I would find out about that particular individual which would change how I felt about the character.  That happened with different characters several times.

What I came away from this book is that relationships (especially long term relationships) are complex, because there are two complex individuals involved in that relationship.  I've always felt that we can never totally know another person, becuase we don't have the ability to know their every thought.  In Girl Gone, we grow to know the two primary characters over time, much like in a growing relationship.  There are things we like about the characters, and things we hate.

Much has been made about the brevity of the ending.  At first, I admit, I was a bit irritated.  But then I kept thinking about it, and can't see any other way it could have ended.  That shock, like many of the other revelations in the book, seemed to fit perfectly.  For the author to have written more about what happens at the end would have taken away from what happens.  We know the characters really well at this point, and it just seems like exactly what the characters would do in the given situation.  Do I like the choices made by the characters?  No, but the choices definitely fit with the way the characters evolved over the course of the book.  Characters made poor/horrific choices thoughout, and to expect a certain character to suddenly become a decent human being and to use good judgement is unrealistic.  I also think that we are meant to ponder the long term consequences on our own... and I have, and oh, it's horrible.

Give Girl Gone a chance.  Stick with it, and enjoy the twisted ride.
2908109
I enjoyed reading this book, and the characters surprised me; developing into multi-faceted characters which made you question who to root for and believe. At times the prose had slightly too many metaphors, which distracted from the plot, as it was slightly difficult to follow. However, I struggled to put it down, and cannot wait to see what happens next!
3879471
The story itself is well put together.  I very good book.  I don't care much for the way that it is told; however, with how it switches so randomly from one character to to another, all in 1st person.  It honestly took me a few chapters to realize that it was in fact different characters.  Then again, I wouldn't be able to think of another way to tell this tale and get the same feeling out of it.

I liked how it focused on each character through thier trials, and how each character had their own way to speaking and feeling about things.  Instead of a straight up telling, it was flavored by what would be the characters exterpeinces and profession.
4430650
I found the book a bit confusing to start with  as there were multiple characters involved but worked it all out in the end.
3173034
The story was captivating and moved at a good pace. I found the number of characters a struggle to keep up with who was who and who did what, at times. Overall, it was an entertaining read and the main character was an interesting fellow. I enjoyed the author's writing style.
3396053
This novel is written in the first person plural point of view, so it took a little while for me to embrace that everything was written with "we" and not to have specific character names to latch on to, but once I got used to the style the story was fascinating. It showed me about a side of a history I had little knowledge of.
2938996
This book was written to resonate with each reader individually. With the omission of descriptions of the characters, it makes it easy for us to fill in each character with a person from our own experience. Im sure that I am not the only person who has a hypocritical material driven person in our lives. Also quite interesting is that this character is a big time investor, yet he chooses to live by his fathers creed of never lending anything to anybody. His entire career is based off of breaking his code. Muftah has done a good job of writing a book that can be filled in with our own relatable details.
1727326
Although there was a mix up with some of the character's names, I read it in a couple of hours.  Couldn't stop until the end