Monday, November 23, 2015

The Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman


TITLE:  The Museum of Extraordinary Things
AUTHOR:  Hoffman, Alice
GENRE:  Fiction
DATES READ:  11/13/2015 - 11/23/2015
MY RATING:  3/5

My coworker let me borrow this one, and she said it was really interesting. 
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This was pretty good.  The Coney Island museum was cool and creepy.  It reminded me of the old school freakshows, only it was a museum of oddities.  And the owner ended up using his daughter's ability to swim very well in order to cast her as one of the main attractions.

The character introductions were all fascinating.  And then the story kind of slowed down.  The story was based around a mystery.  And the mystery was not mysterious.  There was little to know character development throughout the novel.

I found myself wanting to tell the characters to move along.  Besides that, the story was well put until the ending.  Brutal and seemingly superfluous.  I will return this to my coworker, happy that I read it, but not recommending it to anyone else.

Will read and write soon!

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