60 pages • 2 hours read
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Alice Hoffman's Blackbird House has garnered mixed reviews. Readers praise the novel's lyrical prose and the evocative depiction of the New England setting. The interwoven stories of the house's inhabitants over generations are engaging, though some found the narrative structure disjointed. Character development is generally strong, but certain plot lines feel underdeveloped.
Readers who would enjoy Blackbird House by Alice Hoffman are drawn to lyrical, multi-generational family sagas with a touch of magical realism. Fans of Isabel Allende’s The House of the Spirits or Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude will appreciate Hoffman’s weaving of historical and mystical elements set in New England.
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