Cacciatori Di Stelle Cadenti (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
I was very excited to see Gin Phillips's second book, and I guess I was hoping for an extension of The Well and the Mine. This was very different, and I was a bit disappointed at first. However, it is a good book, and she is a very good storyteller. Her characters in this one are not drawn as deeply as in her first book, but they do keep you engaged. The historical aspects of it were a bit on the overdone side, but all in all it's a good book. This felt like reading the final project of a B- Writing 101 student. Repetitive prose, at times a daunting lack of pronouns, felt unresearched. It took roughly 200 pages for me to feel any interest in the characters and even then it was mild to say the least. While the ancient ghost characters were adequately developed, the characters existing in the present tense were completely unnecessary. That guy whose house they went to? The rich mean "bowl hunter?" The other two at the site, Ed and Paul? And I would go so far as to say even her ghost brother, who was supposed to be the backbone of her story, all gave zero to the plot. Could (should) have been a novella.
What do You think about Cacciatori Di Stelle Cadenti (2012)?
I was hoping for a thrilling ghost story, I got a run down of archaeology.
—equus108
Yawn. Life's too short for boring books. Gave up on it.
—Doris
