Reviews

The Caretakers by Amanda Bestor-Siegal

boreal_girl's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

Rounded up to a 4 on Goodreads. A death of a child, wrapped by character studies.  Sometimes a little too redundant in the telling of the characters’ histories.

readwithsabs's review against another edition

mysterious reflective relaxing medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

teresaalice's review

3.0

Only thing available on libby last week. Good enough to listen to but unless you like a long meandering story that goes nowhere, don’t bother.

selilabude's review

adventurous emotional funny mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

reillsreads's review

3.0

This book had such great potential, I love the nanny tragedy aspect that’s normally destined for some drama. However, the writing and timelines were all over the place and difficult to keep track of. Hardly even focused on the death and went off so many irrelevant tangents about the varying women.

vtlism's review

I don't care about bored, rich liars. I hear every writing teacher saying "what are the stakes? Raise the stakes" and their words now make sense to me. I don't care for books that do nothing but scathe and lampoon their subjects. On to greener pastures. 

novelvisits's review

4.0

Thanks to @williammorrowbooks for an electronic copy of #TheCaretakers.

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artbreakerbookclub's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

aprilcore's review

reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

rach_reads410's review

3.0

The story was interesting but I feel lost as to why some of the perspectives needed to be added. I don’t see how it tied all together, or what their back stories had to do with the main plot. Not a bad book, I just didn’t love it