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3.34 AVERAGE
3.34 AVERAGE
This book started out as compelling - what are a married couple who have secrets, who maybe aren't in love with each other anymore, going to do when they meet two younger, attractive, mysterious people in their town? It's languid, suspenseful, and sexy until about two thirds of the way through when it starts to sputter and the story spins its wheels instead of actually climaxing. Would recommend as a quick summer read. It is technically adept and well-written, but I feel it strives for something that it doesn't quite achieve.
Summerlong was a surprise hit for me…it’s darker and edgier than the cover would lead you to believe and is going on my 2015 Summer Reading List.
You can really feel this book…the simmering suburban discontent, everyone having an itch that’s just waiting to be scratched, the restlessness that comes with sweltering summer days. It’s like a sea of smoldering embers threatening to ignite at the slightest catalyst.
To continue reading, please visit my blog: http://www.sarahsbookshelves.com/fiction/sarahs-snippets-book-review-summerlong-by-dean-bakopoulos/
You can really feel this book…the simmering suburban discontent, everyone having an itch that’s just waiting to be scratched, the restlessness that comes with sweltering summer days. It’s like a sea of smoldering embers threatening to ignite at the slightest catalyst.
To continue reading, please visit my blog: http://www.sarahsbookshelves.com/fiction/sarahs-snippets-book-review-summerlong-by-dean-bakopoulos/
Well-written with interesting and flawed characters. My biggest issue is that the reviews and the book jacket kept saying how hilarious this book is and what a great comedy... and it is no such thing. There may be a funny moment or two but it's a drama about the possible ending of a marriage and the mid-life and end-of-life crisis all the characters are going through.
Funny, sad, honest, and profound. I tore through it and would do it again. (this is the review that got me to it: i took my chances! spoiler alert: http://www.npr.org/2015/06/25/416516179/going-through-a-midlife-crisis-summerlong-is-no-escape)
This book started out strong and has a lot of imagery that's perfect to read when you're in the middle of a heat wave. Each of the characters is complicated and flawed and it's hard to root for anyone, but such is life. I'm not sure why this is only getting a 3 from me apart from the fact that there was just a little too much ennui, which made it hard for it to be a book that I cared much about.
Really solid book to take with you on vacation, as long as you're OK with lots of sex scenes!
Really solid book to take with you on vacation, as long as you're OK with lots of sex scenes!
Oh, I really loved this book. A good summer read with beautifully written sentences, healthy doses of drama and absurdity, and also a heavy melancholy and sadness that lays across you like humidity on a hot Iowa summer day. Reminded me a little of Let the Great World Spin at the very end.
Hot and sad don't go together often enough but this book easily clears that hurdle. The book is exceedingly well written and ABC is one of the best characters I've spent 350 pages with in a long time.
I REALLY liked this book. The writing was easy & interesting; the characters were sympathetic & relatable (without being melodramatic). It was a really fun fast read.
Unless this dude put a picture on the back of the book that is 10 or more years old, I cannot figure out for the life of me how he knows so much about marriage and life. He is light years ahead of me anyway.
The book nails marriage.
Not in a cute present with a bow. Nope. With a lot of drugs, alcohol and cheating, this author examines marriage when it starts to breakdown. But it is a great way to look at what is good about marriage too.
I read this at the perfect time in the year as this book takes place over the course of a hot midwest summer. It ends in August, just about at the same time as I finished the book.
I'll definitely be on the lookout for the anything more this guy writes.
The book nails marriage.
Not in a cute present with a bow. Nope. With a lot of drugs, alcohol and cheating, this author examines marriage when it starts to breakdown. But it is a great way to look at what is good about marriage too.
I read this at the perfect time in the year as this book takes place over the course of a hot midwest summer. It ends in August, just about at the same time as I finished the book.
I'll definitely be on the lookout for the anything more this guy writes.
a interesting read though not my usual type of book.