The Sea and the Silence by Peter Cunningham
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I’m kind of in the middle on this book. The story was somewhat engaging but the characters were difficult to understand and get to know.
The Sea and the Silence is a story about Iz, a young woman who once knew love and her experiences in life as she grows older and deals with war issues, family issues and marriage issues.
The writing style was.. odd, and made reading the book harder then it should have been. Peter Cunningham chose to write his dialogue proceeded by a dash instead of using quotation marks, which made for a lot of dashes and a bit of confusion on my part.
Also, the book is split into two parts, that of Hector and that of Iz. I spent most of the second part, Iz, in a very confused state because I didn’t understand why it hadn’t been written first. Toward the end I sort of got why he wrote the book the way he did but it was really confusing up until that point which does not make for an enjoyable read.
The story was good though once all the pieces of the puzzle were put together. I looked back on it and thought, huh – that was interesting. It’s just a shame I couldn’t find it as interesting while I was in the process of reading it. That’s why I’m in the middle of the road on it.
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