Petra Durst-Benning
Author of The Glassblower
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- Canonical name
- Durst-Benning, Petra
- Birthdate
- 1965-02-11
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupations
- Schriftstellerin
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The Glassblower (The Glassblower Trilogy Book 1) by Petra Durst-Benning
So good! It's nice to find a book outside of your normal genre that you really enjoy.
Great story of the glass blowers in Lauscha, Germany
The story was OK, Not great writing, but a good story about 3 sisters in Germany in the 1890's. Their father, a glassblower in a town known for this art, passes away and the women must decide how to support themselves.
The characters seemed out of context-a little too strong and opinionated for the time period. Even with that flaw I was well on the way to giving this book 3 stars for the "cuteness" of the tale. Then WHAM-mid way through the book a really ugly piece of violence occurs -I was gob smacked-it just came from no where. I can handle "ugly" in a book, however this just seemed as though it was thrown in there for the shock factor. Before writing this review, I checked some others that are posted and was satisfied to know that it just wasn't me.
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The characters seemed out of context-a little too strong and opinionated for the time period. Even with that flaw I was well on the way to giving this book 3 stars for the "cuteness" of the tale. Then WHAM-mid way through the book a really ugly piece of violence occurs -I was gob smacked-it just came from no where. I can handle "ugly" in a book, however this just seemed as though it was thrown in there for the shock factor. Before writing this review, I checked some others that are posted and was satisfied to know that it just wasn't me.
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Another delightfully written book by author Petra Durst-Benning. I loved her Glassblower series and this one did not disappoint. She writes memorably characters is such a way as she feel you truly know them. I felt I had stepped off the pages of the book into the world of flowers and into the summer capital of Europe. I would recommend this book to friends and looking forward to more books from the author. .
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- Works
- 33
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- Members
- 1,029
- Popularity
- #25,033
- Rating
- 3.6
- Reviews
- 46
- ISBNs
- 153
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