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THE INVISIBLE HOUR
Alice Hoffman
Simon & Schuster Canada | Atria Books
Publication Date: August 15th, 2023
272 Pages
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Alice Hoffman is a beautiful writer, and of that there is no doubt. This one is about a cult and a young girl who escapes it because of her love of adventure and books (which aren’t allowed on the compound). The book started off well enough and had so much potential. There is a lot of love throughout these pages and I so enjoyed reading Ivy and her daughter Mia’s story. But when the plot veered into Nathanial Hawthorn territory I became bored. As much as I like time travel stories this one just didn’t do it for me. Maybe I am just not smart enough for this type of book. The second half feels like a different book altogether.
The book tries too hard to fit many genres into too few pages. Is it fantasy, literary fiction, women’s fiction or a thriller? I think it got a bit watered down trying to be too much at once. It is a well-written story and Hoffman’s prose is front and center, the premise is a good one. Unfortunately, the bad/boring parts overrode the good.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the Advance Readers Copy.
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