The Storyteller
Ratings60
Average rating4.2
A bit of a slow start for me, and I didn't love the “fairy tale” story interspersed throughout, but overall I'm glad I read it.
I liked the second half better than the first half of the book. It constantly switches between characters and stories and I feel like it did that less in the second half. Not a huge fan of the weird story interspersed throughout the book, but that is obviously part of it. I really enjoyed the second half and would have given it 5 stars except for the first part.
I liked this book. It drew me in so that I lost track of time and kept looking for the opportunity to pick it up again to see what happened next. The details in Minka's account were horrifying to read about but important for us all to remember. The author's switch to different voices and different time periods was at times hard to adjust to but I found that those transitions had me thinking a bit more critically about the themes and connections. The theme of forgiveness was and is one that I find myself mulling over. The author does a good job of introducing the complexities of that.
