Reviews for A Blessed Child

The average rating for A Blessed Child based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-07-23 00:00:00 Luke Hunter Let's always remember this moment. Always! No matter what happens, let's not forget that we lay here in this bed, all three of us, utterly alive and utterly still. When I'm older I want you to tell me about this night, how we lay here in bed close to one another and you sang the night away. I know nothing of how my life will turn out, but whatever happens I want you to tell me about our lying here, all three of us, about how much you loved me and how scared you were of losing me. * She could just walk on, of course, [...] convince herself that she'd be able to forget it as the day wore on. And maybe she would forget for a little while, but something was bound to remind her. It could be absolutely anything: the swans on the sea, a stone at the water's edge, a song on her tape recorder.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-09-30 00:00:00 Nancy Smith Sometimes you can tell by the writing where the author of a books come from. Is that just me? Russian books often have that endless feeling, sad, slow, cruel and limitless. British books are rainy (come on, have you ever read a British book where rain hasn't been mentioned at least once?). This book is norwegian, and, well, I haven't read many Norwegian books yet, but I've been to Norway, and this book certainly felt "norwegian" to me. Whatever that means. Wait, that means that is moves in a very direct, yet unhurried way. That it leaves room for imagination and feelings without being emotional. It's simply the story of three sisters on their way to visit their elderly father (well, one of them anyway), expertly interwoven with flashbacks to the childhood of the sisters, and the events that shaped their family into what it is today. I know, it sounds as if you've read it a thousand times before, but if it is done this way, you need to read it again, because it never becomes overly dramatic or sentimental. Well, maybe it does, but it's all there in your head, not in the writing. It's simply good storytelling, and I enjoyed it a lot.