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I must admit that I didn't get into this book straightaway but once I did, I was hooked! It's an incredibly dark story that had me gasping out loud and biting my nails! Definitely one that I would recommend.
It took me a while to get into this story, although once I did, the mystery of it kept me turning the pages. However, I didn't actually like some of the characters, just couldn't relate to them, so can't say it was one of my favourites.
Ooh, there's lots of you out there that are just going to love this one - Katherine Webb just gets better and better. I still feel a little bereft at leaving Mitzy's story behind, a wonderful story of her obsessional love for artist Charles Aubrey and the extremes it drives her to. Zach and Hannah's modern story is equally strong, and the narrative moves backwards and forwards in time quite seamlessly with none of that wrenching away that sometimes happens in dual time stories, with the threads
There's a really good story in this book, but it's hidden under a heap of unnecessary padding.In the late 1930s, artist Charles Aubrey and his mistress and daughters holiday in Dorset for the summer. Long-since neglected by her mother, local teenager Mitzy befriends the girls and is flattered when Charles makes a series of sketches of her. Unsurprisingly she develops a crush on him and is bereft when the family leave. They return the following year, and over the next two summers Mitzy's crush tu...
Katherine Webb never fails to entertain me and I love each of her books. But with an author like that, do you ever get anxious, wondering if this will be the book that might break that spell they have over you?No worries! This one was over the moon for me! I loved Mitzy to pieces!! At first, I always despise going back and forth trying to figure out who is talking and frankly what year we are in! I loved Mitzi! I couldn't get enough of her. Her younger self, I cried. Literally. Her mom, ugh. Cra...
Not sure how I feel about this book. It’s strange to read a book where you find yourself disliking all of the characters.. It was a good mystery though, and quite well written. However much promise it had, it missed something!
An intriguing story which veered from beauty to ugliness and back several times. It made for a great discussion in my reading group.
Katherine Webb has made a name for herself with her charming, Gothic novels that have a very rustic, nostalgic feel to them. In A Half Forgotten Song, she tries to replicate this and ultimately ends up failing. The otherworldly, Gothic element is there but too easily and too quickly explained, and therefore loses any impact almost from the very beginning. That pastoral and sentimental component is also forced, as it is not so much a hint but an actual setting. Half of the novel is told in flashb...
I enjoyed other books by this author, so I had high hopes. Still well written, but about 100 pages too long. I didn't love or hate the story. There were too many smaller stories that took away from time that could've been spent developing some of the characters better. As long as it was, I know no one in the end except Dimity & she was just frustrating. Seemed like a lot of work to finish!
I originally heard about Katherine Webb when I was looking for authors similar to Kate Morton. I read and enjoyed her first novel, The Legacy, so reading this one was a no brainer for me. I was so thrilled to win a review copy from LibraryThing.I’m going to start things off a bit differently for this review. I have to mention this cover at the start. It is beautiful and perfectly captures the feeling of the story. I smiled each time I saw this book on my nightstand.Okay, anyone who had read even...
I am not quite sure how to rate this book and I'm not sure how to review it either. It is a well-written book, and the narrator in the audio version is quite good. I can appreciate the handiwork, and the way the mystery is spun, but I really did not like the book at all. The book is full of despicable and unlikable characters. Firstly there is Dimity. She is supposed to be driven by love and is depicted as a simple, poor girl from the countryside. She was half-interesting at first, but as the st...
This book started with so much promise. But, it lost steam and became repetitious. Some characters blossomed and others just seemed to be glossed over. The book was all over the place. I was just bored and wanted it to be over.
This wasn't a novel that caught me right away; the prose felt languid and dreamlike in the beginning, in keeping with the slow-to-change pacing of daily life in the seaside community in Dorset where it's set. After the first hundred pages or so, though, I found myself caught in its web and put it down only with difficulty. A Half Forgotten Song tells two intertwining stories spaced over 70 years apart, and the seamless transitions heighten the sense that the past still exerts a strong hold on th...
4.5 Stars'A Half-Forgotten Song' is a work of literary fiction that chronicles the life of Mitzy Hatcher during the summer of 1937 when renowned artist Charles Aubrey brings his daughters and his mistress to the small town that Mitzy lives in with her family. That summer and the following three summers, will forever change Mitzy's life, along with the lives of those who were involved in Aubrey's life. Scandal turns to obsession, secrets, heartache, and love.Webb did an impeccable job with her no...
