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3.81 AVERAGE
3.81 AVERAGE
Maybe I just wasn't in the right mood to read this book. But I didn't take much away from it. I don't need to like all the characters in a book, but I need to be interested in them. In here, I just wasn't.
It does all come together in an interesting way at the end.
I liked this book. It's certainly not action packed, by any stretch of the imagination, but it was a nice read...and having just been to Hawaii it was nice to be able to envision all of the places that the author wrote about!!
I haven't seen the movie, but it was easy to imagine George Clooney as the narrator here. This was a quick and engaging read, and the characters were well constructed. Hemmings did an impressive job of developing character and a sense of Hawaii in a relatively short book. I had never read anything by him before, but I quite like him as an author.
Really enjoyed starting right in the action, with a plot that could have been too fantastic if not written so well. The characters were interesting, and the father very real. Very human.
3.5 stars - recommended by the library for Asian/Pacific Islander Heritage Month. A pretty quick and enjoyable read!
emotional
funny
sad
slow-paced
“Goodbye my love, my friend, my pain, my happiness”
Great story! I decided to read it before I saw the movie and I'm glad I did. At some points absurdly hilarious and achingly sad at others. I thought it was more a book about parenting than anything.
gelesen damit ich mitreden kann.
An sich nicht schlecht, viellecciht etwas naiv - kein Muss
An sich nicht schlecht, viellecciht etwas naiv - kein Muss
