Helpful Score: 2
This was the November pick in my online book club The Reading Cove. It wasn't my cuppa.
The first couple chapters had me interested in Sasha and Bennie, but once the story went off into Rhea and the others, it became too disjointed and pointless for me, and my interest quickly fizzled. I really didn't care about the new characters I was meeting and the blah, blah, blah nature of what they had to say. Some sections had no quotation marks for dialogue, while others did. I found this annoying.
I skimmed to part B, and finally chucked it - with regret, because I feel badly giving up on a book club read - but this just wasn't coherent enough for me. And I'm very surprised it won a Pulitzer.
The first couple chapters had me interested in Sasha and Bennie, but once the story went off into Rhea and the others, it became too disjointed and pointless for me, and my interest quickly fizzled. I really didn't care about the new characters I was meeting and the blah, blah, blah nature of what they had to say. Some sections had no quotation marks for dialogue, while others did. I found this annoying.
I skimmed to part B, and finally chucked it - with regret, because I feel badly giving up on a book club read - but this just wasn't coherent enough for me. And I'm very surprised it won a Pulitzer.
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