Andree’s Reviews > The Sparrow > Status Update

Oh, good. I'm guessing I've reached the part where everyone starts dying in increasingly horrible ways. Delightful.

So far, I have two issues with this. 1. The characterization is somehow off, in the sense that I don't think I buy their choices -specifically these people dropping everything and going to space. Nor do their interactions feel entirely natural to me. 2. I have issues with a narrative structure which holds a particularly horrible axe over your head for an entire book. Hard to enjoy anything then.

Should have started this earlier, because I'm not sure how fast I'll be able to read this. It's certainly not bad, but it's also not easy.