The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno - Review

The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno
by Ellen Bryson
Publisher: Henry Holt as well as Co.
Publication Date: June 22, 2010
ISBN: 9780805091922
352 Pages (Hardcover)
Fiction


Publisher's Description:

Bartholomew Fortuno, the World's Thinnest Man, believes which his unusual body is the gift. Hired by nothing alternative than P. T. Barnum to work during his spectacular American Museuma complicated wonder during of horrible displays, breathtaking melodramatic performances, as well as live shows by Barnum's expel of freaks as well as odditiesFortuno has reached the apex of his career. But after the decade of constant work, he finds his sense of self, as well as his gratification inside of the walls of the museum, flagging. When the carriage pulls up outside the museum in the dead of night, temperament Barnum as well as the mysterious veiled womanrumored to be the new performerFortuno's curiosity is piqued. And when Barnum asks Fortuno to follow her as well as inform back on her whereabouts, his world is turned upside down. Why is Barnum so spooky with this woman? Who is she, really? And why has she taken such the hold on the hearts of those around her?


My Opinion:

With the expel of characters which includes the fat lady, the clever man, the bendable man, the structure of the body man, the giantess along with others, you might expect an action-packed tale, but The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno is the solemnly building story which reveals the dim secrets during the back of Bartholomew's (called Barthy by his friends) impassioned thinness - the little of which he is unknowingly of himself.

Although billed as the work comparable to Sara Gruen's Water For Elephants, The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno did not resonate with me in the same way. Many of the characters in this sto! ry lacke d depth, due in part to the actuality which Bartholomew was the self-centered as well as genuine loner. He is clueless about what's unequivocally going on with the alternative members of the museum, as well as it doesn't assistance which he isolates himself from them in sequence to keep what he's been you do under wraps. Since the book is told from his point of view you don't unequivocally get some-more than the aspect believe of the alternative characters, which is unequivocally the shame since there is so most intensity there.

As distant as the tract goes we suspicion most of it was predictable, especially when it came to the big explanation of the single of the act's secrets during the finish of the book - we had guessed the secret about halfway through the story. There were unequivocally only the couple of events which we didn't see coming, the single having to do with Bartholomew's past as well as the alternative in regards to who was environment the fires.

I have to confess which we was the little unhappy in this book. we feel similar to opportunities were missed to excavate in to the lives of the little of the teenager characters, whose pasts were sure to be fascinating as well as probably pain-filled. Granted, the writer does reveal the little information about the character's past lives, but not sufficient for me to become invested in their storylines.

Reading The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno was an easy approach to pass the time, but it lacked the abyss which could have done it in to something very special.

Rating: 3.5/5









*I received the giveaway copy of this book to review.

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