Reviews - You Only Call When You're in Trouble

203 reviews for:

You Only Call When You're in Trouble

Stephen McCauley

3.33 AVERAGE

erin44854's review

4.0

emotional hopeful reflective 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

mauraski's review

4.0

I thoroughly enjoyed this novel by Stephen mcCauley and will add his other books to my "to read" list. It's a very engaging human interest story with, for the most part, likeable characters. I would have liked to know Dearpath's decision but that's a small quibble on my part. Summer is hear and this would make for a nice beach read. Recommend!

One small note before publication. There is a typo on page 291. The sentence starts, "On the other handl", it should read "hand".

My thanks to Net Galley for an opportunity to read this novel before publication in exchange for an honest review.

cassipaslick's review

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

me_alley's review against another edition

4.25

emotional relaxing medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Content Warnings

melhara's review against another edition

1.0

slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

A story about a dysfunctional family with too many disjointed POVs (Tom, Cecile, Dorothy, and Fiona) and too little character development or redeeming qualities for the characters. I found Cecile's story arc to be the most interesting but overall, this was a boring novel in which I couldn't connect or sympathize with any of the characters.

To make things worse, there was no clear resolution in the end (particularly for Cecile's arc, which I was most interested in). As such, I regret not DNF'ing this book.

I listened to the audiobook at x1.35 speed.