Mudbound

Mudbound Review

Mudbound is so fascinating, you will want to read the whole book in one sitting. The multiple plots within the book and the characters are very well conceived and thought provoking.

6 out of 7 people found this review helpful.

A good read.

To say that I enjoyed this book would be rather a strange way to put it as the subject is painfull to read about. However, I am very glad that I read this book.

Mudbound is well written with interesting, fully developed characters. Written from each characters' point of view this book gives the reader a good idea of where each person is "coming from."

I believe this book would make an excellent choice for book club discussions.

3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

POWERFUL!

I was overwhelmed by the power this book held. Such a gripping story with characters you fall in love with & despise.
Brilliant!

3 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

Great exciting read

I couldn't put the book down. After I finished reading, I could not get the characters out of my mind. I liked the way Hilary Jordan wrote each chapter alternating characters and in doing so, she brought the character to life. She wrote about a terrible time in our nation's history and she did it in such a way that the reader could feel all the emotions of her characters.

2 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

Excellent!

Mudbound is one of the books that I found hard to put down. It was very well written and I liked that it went back and forth between the characters in their own voices. The story drew me in at just the right pace. Nothing drawn out before you got into the story.

2 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

Great Book for book Groups

This book was very good. I liked the fact that the chapters were different people in the book.

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

LOVE ITTT!!!

Wow - you know when you're searched and read the first two chapters of every dam book for the past 2 months looking for something that will really hold you. Well, oh my goodness... if I knew about this book before, I would not have wasted so much time reading all those other fake books. This author is going to become very huge. This book is going to become a movie. I dare hollywood to leave this behind. When you start reading this book, you are going to need to go slowly because it's her first book and you wont want it to end because you dont know when the next one is coming out. yet, how can you read slowly when you have no control over the rate at which you're being sucked in. Ok. I'm not telling you anything else. Read THE BOOOKKK!

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

A Must Read

This book was phenomenal. The development of the characters and how their live's intertwined kept me totally mesmerized. I didn't want it to end. Great new writer, great new book.

2 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

Mudbound

Wow..a page turner..i love books which are narrarted by character, like Mudbound, and The Kitchen House..she did a fabulous job writing her very first novel..

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Amazing.....

And engrossing It's disturbing that characters like this really DID exist. I read the whole book in 2 days-I simply couldn't put it down. If you enjoyed "The Help" and "The Secret Life of Bees" this is definitely the book for you.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Not terrible, but definitely not great

This novel wasn't bad, but it wasn't very enjoyable, either. The writing wasn't very advanced, and the characters weren't believable. The six different perspectives, too, were irritating, in that there were so few chapters in each one's viewpoint, being so spread out besides, that one couldn't really get the feel for any of the characters; if one desired to tell a story through six different perspectives, I think that the author should have greater than 324 pages in telling it. Pappy, one of the main characters (though not having an actual voice in this novel), seemed unreal in character, his actions never really being justified, the main purpose of them being, at least indicated, anyway, that he was just plain evil, no reason for it. The plot, too, was rather messy in execution; the beginning having too little, being a couple hundred pages or greater all about farm life, while the eventful portion only took little less than a hundred pages, seeming crammed and rushed, in that, when disaster struck, you didn't really feel any personal connection with the characters.

A decent read, not horrible, by any means, but not a real memorable, "wow" kind of read.

1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

Characters Written Well

It was quite simple to fall into the mindset of some of the characters. The language used made me easily envision who I was reading in each chapter. Jamie and Ronsel were written very well.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Great Debut

I'm not normally a fan of multiple first person point of view, but Jordan did such a fantastic job differentiating each voice that there was no distraction in the many shifts. She uses each word to it's ultimate effect, allowing her to explore a difficult topic in a spare style which was easy and pleasurable to read. This is an excellent book club choice with many points of discussion.

1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

This is a first book?? Hard to believe!

This book was intense. For someone who grew up in the south, the attitudes of some southerners toward black people bewilder me. This novel tells the story from each characters point of view. In a less talented writer's hands, the constant switch of viewpoints could be cumbersome, but this author so thoroughly fleshed out each character and gave them their own unique voice that the character switches ended up being fascinating. The story was tragic, but the book was wonderful. Excellent first novel. I still find that hard to believe.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Good read

keep me turning the pages

Great Read

Rich characters. I could picture this harsh south and these people. Would highly recommend!

Good read

If you enjoyed The Help, this isfor you.

Miranda

Sits back

Great Read

This book grabbed me from the first chapter and I couldn't put it down. Liked the way the story was told by each character. I will definitely read this author again

I was really looking forward to reading Mudbound, since I love n

I was really looking forward to reading Mudbound, since I love novels written about the South. However, this novel was somewhat boring and very slow. I did like that each chapter was written from each characters perspective, but there just isn't much to the story, and felt it a waste of time.