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Rückblickend korrigiere ich meine Wertung um einen Stern nach unten und frage mich, warum ich das Buch überhaupt beendet habe. Irgendwas Gutes muss es gehabt haben, doch was? Die Figuren sind konstruiert und durchlaufen keine nennenswerte Entwicklung, obwohl es ausreichend Gelegenheit gegeben hätte. Noch nicht einmal die titelgebende Mary, die tatsächlich einiges durchmacht. Ereignisse hätte es ausreichend viele gegeben, doch werden diese so unaufgeregt und mit wenig Gefühl für Tempo und Dramatu...
Tedious. I didn't hate it - I would've given up on it if I had. But I stuck with it, as I actually thought it was going somewhere.....but it didn't! I skim read the last 50 pages or so as I just wanted to get to the end and move on...so maybe I missed something - or maybe not.
"All the boredom of Trevor Lacey's life had taught him to find a game and to make people play." These "hitting the nail on the head" lines are part of the reason I keep reading this book.Greenlaw lets this book get away from her. She puts too much effort in twisting the plot, in attempting to hang onto the reader by withholding information that soon becomes less interesting anyway. She needed a better editor. Someone who could have kept her from veering into "I [thought I] saw something nasty in...
One review said "Despite the impossibly twee place names and occasional anachronisms, she just about avoids quaintness," and concluded: "Mary George is a strong but strangely lifeless first novel."But before i knew that i had paid my dollar for the typography on the cover.
