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4.1 AVERAGE
4.1 AVERAGE
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
Turned page after page dying to know what would happen, and at the same time didn't want it to end. Engaging story and characters in my favorite time and place, 1940s London
emotional
mysterious
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This was a fun book that keeps you rethinking possible scenarios and solutions to the family secret throughout. I'd put it in the cozy mystery category which I like - a puzzle to be solved but no heart thumping action or possible death at the turn of every page.
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This book is almost exactly the same as House at Riverton. Had I not already read that, I might have liked this better. But they have the same structure (jumping back and forth in time between generations) and the same kind of inciting incident (mysterious event at child’s birthday party at a house in the English countryside).
It’s long - almost 20 hours. Having figured out the ending many many hours before it arrived, the last half of the book was a slog. If I had a print edition, I would have skipped to the end just to confirm I was right, and then moved on with my life.
This book was easily twice as long as it needed to be. It’s probably a 3 star book in terms of the prose, but I can’t remember the last time I felt so annoyed at something. When they started to read sections of the Peter Plan play, I was yelling “why?!l” at my phone. This book did not need a book within it.
The male characters were really one-dimensional: goodies or baddies. No nuance.
And the scene where the man is beating his wife is unnecessarily long. Yeah, we get it. Move on.
It can’t qualify as a character-driven story because none of the characters actually evolves over the course of 19 hours.
It’s long - almost 20 hours. Having figured out the ending many many hours before it arrived, the last half of the book was a slog. If I had a print edition, I would have skipped to the end just to confirm I was right, and then moved on with my life.
This book was easily twice as long as it needed to be. It’s probably a 3 star book in terms of the prose, but I can’t remember the last time I felt so annoyed at something. When they started to read sections of the Peter Plan play, I was yelling “why?!l” at my phone. This book did not need a book within it.
The male characters were really one-dimensional: goodies or baddies. No nuance.
It can’t qualify as a character-driven story because none of the characters actually evolves over the course of 19 hours.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Domestic abuse
Moderate: Death, Violence, Death of parent, War
adventurous
emotional
informative
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
Strong character development:
Yes
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes