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I had a really hard time getting into The Storyteller. First it was because I didn't care too much for the writing style, then I didn't connect with Anna. She's very sheltered, which is fine, but she's also pretty bland and annoying. Why is she all of a sudden obsessed with Abel? Enough so that she quietly stalks him and his sister around town. I get that she's sick of her boring, sheltered life, but suddenly clinging to Abel was a bit random. Then after hanging out with him a few times, she starts thinking she knows so much about life, and that she's better than her shallow friends. That was extremely annoying, since all she did was listen to the fairytale he tells his sister. She can go back to her comfortable, upper-middle class life any time. He's living something that she cannot even begin to understand, and yet she thinks being around him makes her so wise. I don't think so.

I'm sure there's lots of beautiful imagery and deeper meaning, but it got lost for me behind an unforgivably slow and boring story. Yes, I felt bad for Abel, but seeing him through Anna's rose-colored glasses made it hard to actually care and connect. The fairytale was an interesting addition, but I found that I didn't really care for that either. It's based in reality, and holds the answers to the bigger mystery surrounding Abel and Micha's situation, but again, I just didn't feel connected to it and didn't bother trying to fit things together myself.

Anna and Abel's growing relationship was sweet as he slowly opened up to her, but then it takes a turn for the worst. I wanted to yell at Anna to abandon her little social experiment and stay away. She was so caught up in fairytales and having an adventure that she was completely blind to reality. I'm not blaming her for what happened, but she shouldn't have pushed him, and should have taken off those damn rose-colored glasses to see what is really going on in front of her! Neither of these characters were redeemable at that point. Abel cannot be forgiven no matter what his background was, and Anna is in desperate need of a reality check.

Unfortunately, this book just did not work for me. I typically enjoy stories with darker themes and rough topics, but not this time. The story didn't really grab my interest and I didn't connect with any of the characters, or particularly like any of them, including the secondary characters. I mainly kept reading to see who the murderer was, but I was surprised and disappointed to learn that I figured everything out from the beginning. I was hoping for some shock ending, but it didn't deliver. I just found myself even more frustrated with Anna.


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The Storyteller Antonia Michaelis Books Reviews

I usually avoid books that do not have HEA endings but I read this knowing that it didn't. I disliked the ending but I liked the story. It was unique including the fact that the hero was a storyteller. I liked the hero as well even though he did bad things. I could not help but feel sorry for him and his sister. Depending on how you feel about the hero will color how you feel about the ending. To me it it a tragic ending.
"But beneath his words, Anna sensed the darkness that lurked in the shadows, the ancient darkness of fairy tales."

This book is very hard to review. It was beautifully written. I just felt like there was no hope in the words, like you couldn't feel the silver lining. I would say that this book was kind of dark but that doesn't feel right, maybe more like gray.

"Our ship is called Hope."
"And now we're leaving her behind."

I felt really bad for Abel, like he was broken and drowning and
there was no turning back.

"Maybe the responsibility for Micha is more of an anchor than a burden. A lifeboat. A wooden plank to hold onto so you don't drown."

"Keep my mind for me. See to it that nobody steals it."

Anna was a strong, forgiving character. She made some bad choices but I still really liked her. Even as horrible as this may sound I think I may have like her a little bit more when she didn't give up on Abel.

"If we lose each other in this endless icy winter, where will we find each other?"
"Where it's spring."

"I am staying with the storyteller."

I'm not sure what more I can say about this book. Would l recommend it? Yes. Also I feel this was an emotional read. I cried reading this book and I don't do that for many books, and I have read a lot of them.

A couple more of my favorite quotes.

"I'm not one if the answering people. I'm the storyteller."

"But everybody...everybody knows everything, Abel murmured. Now. No, everybody knows nothing. Nobody knows anything. Nobody knows everything..."

"The world is turning the wrong way around, and they don't notice"
This story begins on a rather mysterious note, but you quickly put that aside as you get lost in this seemingly innocent tale that Abel makes up for his little sister. However, everything in the story is represented in the “reality” of Abel and Micah’s life. As the two stories combine, that sense of mystery becomes all pervading. The truth is hidden in the fairytale, and Anna’s inability to see things from outside the hue of blue that her upbringing has colored her perception makes her an unreliable narrator that you wish was the real storyteller. Unfortunately, icy, blue-eyed Abel is the actual driver of this story. If you don’t like to cry over a story, don’t read. If you dislike stories about characters who survive abuse but still cannot escape those memories, don’t read. Despite all that, I thoroughly enjoyed this tale even though I had hoped for a different ending much like Anna’s imaginings.
I had a really hard time getting into The Storyteller. First it was because I didn't care too much for the writing style, then I didn't connect with Anna. She's very sheltered, which is fine, but she's also pretty bland and annoying. Why is she all of a sudden obsessed with Abel? Enough so that she quietly stalks him and his sister around town. I get that she's sick of her boring, sheltered life, but suddenly clinging to Abel was a bit random. Then after hanging out with him a few times, she starts thinking she knows so much about life, and that she's better than her shallow friends. That was extremely annoying, since all she did was listen to the fairytale he tells his sister. She can go back to her comfortable, upper-middle class life any time. He's living something that she cannot even begin to understand, and yet she thinks being around him makes her so wise. I don't think so.

I'm sure there's lots of beautiful imagery and deeper meaning, but it got lost for me behind an unforgivably slow and boring story. Yes, I felt bad for Abel, but seeing him through Anna's rose-colored glasses made it hard to actually care and connect. The fairytale was an interesting addition, but I found that I didn't really care for that either. It's based in reality, and holds the answers to the bigger mystery surrounding Abel and Micha's situation, but again, I just didn't feel connected to it and didn't bother trying to fit things together myself.

Anna and Abel's growing relationship was sweet as he slowly opened up to her, but then it takes a turn for the worst. I wanted to yell at Anna to abandon her little social experiment and stay away. She was so caught up in fairytales and having an adventure that she was completely blind to reality. I'm not blaming her for what happened, but she shouldn't have pushed him, and should have taken off those damn rose-colored glasses to see what is really going on in front of her! Neither of these characters were redeemable at that point. Abel cannot be forgiven no matter what his background was, and Anna is in desperate need of a reality check.

Unfortunately, this book just did not work for me. I typically enjoy stories with darker themes and rough topics, but not this time. The story didn't really grab my interest and I didn't connect with any of the characters, or particularly like any of them, including the secondary characters. I mainly kept reading to see who the murderer was, but I was surprised and disappointed to learn that I figured everything out from the beginning. I was hoping for some shock ending, but it didn't deliver. I just found myself even more frustrated with Anna.