Reviews for Sing Them Home

The average rating for Sing Them Home based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-02-09 00:00:00 Veronica Gillespie "Read" is cheating -- I read about 100 pages and quit. I would have thrown it against a wall but 1) it was a library book and 2) it's pretty fat, so it would have left a dent. I'm sure people who like magical realism will adore this book, but I thought it was goopy and annoying. Just as I'd become interested in a "real" character, some random dead person would appear and the author would waste five pages on a lot of woo-woo philosophizing about the dead and their opinions. Dead people, apparently, do not want us to sweat the small stuff! Which made me feel much better about giving up after 100 pages.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-08-04 00:00:00 Mike Shuf It took me a while to get into this book, but once I did, I was hooked. Kallos is a good writer, and one of her strengths is her subtle, intelligent humor. I really liked, too, how she feeds you a little bit of information at a time and makes you wait till the end of the book to get the whole story about this odd family and even odder town. For me, the biggest drawback was the terrible editing. There were lots of typos ("acamedician" was a standout among the more mundane misspellings) and odd mistakes ("Princess Leah" instead of "Leia" more than once). The author also repeatedly described children doing developmentally inappropriate things and made me wonder if she's ever been around children at all (e.g., she had a 6-week-old sitting up in a high chair and eating food, a 4-month-old playing alone in a kitchen and rearranging cabinets, and 2 kids under the age of 2 entertaining themselves outside without supervision). Nitpicky? Yes, but I can't help it -- those things really distract me.