The Pagoda

Rating:
Summary: Awful
Review: I consider this novel to be well-written. The plot is exceptionally original.

The novel revolves around characters who have been so wounded and so traumized they are unable to truly communicate and connect with one another.

Some well kept secrets began to unravel, and lives began to change, following the night the main character, Lowe, a Chinese man's small shop is burned down and with it the death of a mysterious man named Cecil.

Rating:
Summary: Unique
Review: I consider this novel to be well-written. The plot is exceptionally original.

The novel revolves around characters who have been so wounded and so traumized they are unable to truly communicate and connect with one another.

Some well kept secrets began to unravel, and lives began to change, following the night the main character, Lowe, a Chinese man's small shop is burned down and with it the death of a mysterious man named Cecil.

Rating:
Summary: Awful
Review: The book is very poorly written. It seems as if the author wrote two pages of plot and added another 250 pages of repetitive, pointless and meaningless descriptions. Reading the book was like clipping really hard finger nails. I can't describe the book as anything else but hard. By hard I do not mean difficult, because there are works which can be difficult yet beautiful. By hard I mean lifeless and annoying.

Rating:
Summary: Beautiful!
Review: This book takes Patricia Powell's extraordinarily sensual writing to a new level. I felt myself carried away in the stream of dreamlike possibilities this book launched within me! Brava, Ms. Powell for your courage and vision!