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sleeson's review
emotional
hopeful
lighthearted
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
Though Fiction, the hurt, grudges and anger the family have towards one another are relatable. The forgiveness in the story was a great reminder on how I can choose to forgive people who have hurt me. Mild swearing. No sexual content.
Content Warnings
Minor: Mental illness, Cursing, and Death of parent
rinnykitty's review
emotional
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
As someone who has mostly been watching Food Network for the past month and have a guilty pleasure of watching reality TV, this book was right up my alley.
This book was so goddamn wordy I found myself skimming a lot of paragraphs. I felt like it was going so slow and not going slow at the same time. I've seen reviews complaining of the miscommunication, but that's what makes good reality TV so I thought it was somewhat fitting. Despite my first complaint, I thought this was very well written. I felt Amanda's existential crisis of living in a small town only working at a chicken place every day for possibly the rest of your life, and I dont even live in a small town. This book also made me crave fried chicken, all I wanted while reading this was a big bucket of fried chicken. The drama was good enough to get me anxious thinking "oh no you messed up real bad this time, let's see how you solve this". The ending took a lighthearted turn which I enjoyed, but oh wait did I say the ending? I meant the last chapter. Because the publisher thought it'd be a good idea to take the epilogue out of the kindle version and put in a link to enter my email. I never got the email with the link to the epilogue. So I'm sitting here wondering what they ended up doing afterwords. I dont know, maybe never will, but damn I hope they all live happily ever after.
This book was so goddamn wordy I found myself skimming a lot of paragraphs. I felt like it was going so slow and not going slow at the same time. I've seen reviews complaining of the miscommunication, but that's what makes good reality TV so I thought it was somewhat fitting. Despite my first complaint, I thought this was very well written. I felt Amanda's existential crisis of living in a small town only working at a chicken place every day for possibly the rest of your life, and I dont even live in a small town. This book also made me crave fried chicken, all I wanted while reading this was a big bucket of fried chicken. The drama was good enough to get me anxious thinking "oh no you messed up real bad this time, let's see how you solve this". The ending took a lighthearted turn which I enjoyed, but oh wait did I say the ending? I meant the last chapter. Because the publisher thought it'd be a good idea to take the epilogue out of the kindle version and put in a link to enter my email. I never got the email with the link to the epilogue. So I'm sitting here wondering what they ended up doing afterwords. I dont know, maybe never will, but damn I hope they all live happily ever after.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Car accident, Miscarriage, Child death, Death, Chronic illness, and Death of parent
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