Skip to main content
PBS logo
 
 

Book Reviews of The Uses of Enchantment

The Uses of Enchantment
The Uses of Enchantment
Author: Heidi Julavits
ISBN-13: 9780385513234
ISBN-10: 0385513232
Publication Date: 10/1/2006
Pages: 368
Rating:
  • Currently 3.1/5 Stars.
 9

3.1 stars, based on 9 ratings
Publisher: Doubleday
Book Type: Hardcover
Reviews: Amazon | Write a Review

Book Reviews submitted by our Members...sorted by voted most helpful

JPatterson avatar reviewed The Uses of Enchantment on + 11 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
A good premise very badly executed. There are no sympathetic or even vaguely realistic characters in this story. From the earliest pages you have no reason to care about any of the characters and you just want the book to end. The psychobabble dialogue is exhausting, and the fact that this is one of those books that ends with the tired "did this really happen, or not?" is just the last nail in its coffin.