Helpful Score: 5
Excellent book! Gives a lot for any reader, but especially mothers, to think about. The story takes a lot of twists that I didn't see coming. While reading, I was constantly asking myself what I would do in the same situation. I liked this book so much that I got my book club to read it too. I would definitely recommend!
Helpful Score: 2
For me, a very annoying read. The author's overuse of similies and metaphors drove me crazy in the beginning. Some characters well-developed, the motives of others severely lacking. Unbelievable resolution to the story.
Helpful Score: 1
Really hoped that I would love this book since it sounded so good......was a wee bit hard for me to really get into it! Just an okay read!
Helpful Score: 1
I was really looking forward to reading this book and was so disappointed in it. The book was slow going, and not what I thought it would be. You can almost figure out what is coming next.
I couldn't get into this book at all. After the first page I listed the book. I had just bought it new from PBS. This is nothing personal just my own opinion, but I saw another of this Authors books and it too just didn't do it for me. I hope the person that has this on their WL that I am packaging it to send it to right now will enjoy it.
Happy reading. I hope?
Happy reading. I hope?
I really enjoyed this debut by Amy Bourret. My hope is that she will write many more. The characters are well developed, as well as the plot. I will remember this book long after it was finished. Highly recommended!
This book was okay. The best facet of it was the actual plot itself; I kept reading because I did care about the characters, and really wanted to see what happened. However, the writing was another matter. The main thing I can say was that it was very uneven. In some places, the prose was quite nice and the writing good. However, unfortunately most of it was not as good. This author uses WAY, WAY too many cliches and similes. Every description was a simile, and the entire book was just rife with cliches. I got really sick of reading them and cringed every time I read a sentence like this one: "The plane touches tarmac as smoothly as a busybody neighbor running a glove across a dusty mantel." ??? Really? That is bad. And those types of similes are throughout the book. It's a shame because this type of low-level writing was really distracting from what was a good storyline. Not all the writing is that bad, some of it is pretty decent which made me sad for the editor this story clearly needed. Anyway, it's worth a read, just don't expect Joan Didion or anything.
This book surprised me, I liked it alot better than I thought I would! There are quite a few twists and turns throughout the book and I thought the ending fit perfectly. To me the ending was predictable but still a great read overall! I would read another book by this author!
