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4.13 AVERAGE
4.13 AVERAGE
Towles is a fantastic writer. While I wasn't as interested in this setting as I was in A Gentleman in Moscow, his characters were engaging and the relationship between the main character, his brother, and the two friends he meets in juvie was really well crafted.
After not enjoying Gentleman in Moscow as much as I hoped, i was wary about starting The Lincoln Highway but I shouldn’t have been. Towles has an incredible ability to create and sustain multiple voices within one story and lead the reader to the big reveal without them even noticing. I absolutely loved this book and can’t wait to read another by Towles.
Maybe a 3.5. Longer than it needed to be. Great book in the end.
adventurous
emotional
inspiring
sad
tense
fast-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
hopeful
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
adventurous
hopeful
inspiring
adventurous
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
adventurous
emotional
inspiring
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The Lincoln Highway reads like Mark Twain if Huck Finn had a Studebaker, not a raft. It's a road trip novel that's more about the people than the places. It's engrossing, peculiar, and empathetic. Emmett is fresh out of a juvenile work camp for something like involuntary manslaughter. Two of his fellow inmates, Wooley and Duchess, have escaped and join 18-year-old Emmett and his wise 8-year-old brother on what is supposed to be a road trip on the Lincoln Highway west to San Francisco. When the brothers have to head east instead because Wooley and Duchess have absconded with the Studebaker. The brothers follow, hitching a ride on boxcars and adventures ensue. Part road story, part inheritance tale, part adventure the novel is larger than the sum of its parts and arrives at an unexpected destination.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for a digital ARC.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for a digital ARC.
Great book. Had a soggy bottom boys feel to it. Prob 4.4 rounded down. Probably a fun conversation about it with a booKer would push me to a 5