I received this book as a giveaway from Goodreads. I normally like books that are told from different points of view, but this one was at times a little confusing. It jumped back and forth and all over the place. That being said this story was pretty dang good! It follows two cousins fighting for their lives after a fire in their dorm room and the secrets surrounding the cause. And it has a nice little twist at the end. Definitely a thumbs up.
The Good Goodbye was the March 2018 pick in my online book club, The Reading Cove.
Overall, it read more like a YA novel than Women's Fiction. The story is told through three POVs: Natalie, her daughter Arden, and her niece Rory. The two college freshmans got more page-time than the adult, so by the halfway point, I found myself wishing there were another adult POV to balance out the high-school-ish narratives.
I did really enjoy the gradual revelation of information about the characters and things that happened in the past. It gave the story a mysterious thrust that kept me wanting to turn the pages.
It did feel like it ran long by a good 30 pages. Some spaces were lived in for too long and the plot could've been tightened up a bit, but overall I thought it was readable story. B-
Overall, it read more like a YA novel than Women's Fiction. The story is told through three POVs: Natalie, her daughter Arden, and her niece Rory. The two college freshmans got more page-time than the adult, so by the halfway point, I found myself wishing there were another adult POV to balance out the high-school-ish narratives.
I did really enjoy the gradual revelation of information about the characters and things that happened in the past. It gave the story a mysterious thrust that kept me wanting to turn the pages.
It did feel like it ran long by a good 30 pages. Some spaces were lived in for too long and the plot could've been tightened up a bit, but overall I thought it was readable story. B-
