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wendiwoo1's review against another edition
1.0
And I thought I had mother issues! This book quickly went in a direction I was not expecting. I couldn't relate to this character at all. The action just didn't flow logically for me. I couldn't understand her relationship with her best friend or her best friend's son. Everything seemed so unlikely. I couldn't understand the character's motives.
mazthegreat's review against another edition
2.0
didn't finish, got bored. good book, just not what I was looking for at that moment.
lizaroo71's review against another edition
2.0
This is the story of Helen who kills her octogenarian mother. We find out why with flashbacks to a most dysfunctional family. I felt that there were too many unanswered questions. The ending was disappointing for me.
hellomeg10's review against another edition
1.0
This book is wierd. I was very excited to read it since The Lovely Bones is easily in my Top 5. This book is nowhere near as good, extremely confusing, and creepy.
jkenna1990's review against another edition
2.0
Not only did I find this book highly boring, the ending seems unfinished and almost mean. After all the time slogging through the book nothing is even resolved at the ending? I would like to say that this book made me think but all it made me was sad. Sad that I wasted my time on it.
averychipman's review against another edition
4.0
I feel like I need a long time to digest Almost Moon, or to reread it now as I’ve just finished it for the first time.
A tragic story, after also just reading Lucky this week, and I saw a lot of parallels between Alice Sebold’s own family and the fictitious Knightleys. While the whole story, the unwinding of Helen’s childhood, failed marriage, and then her parents’ old age is devastating and bleak, there is a beautiful moment at the end when Helen sees the notes that tethered Mrs. Leverton to the world and realizes what tethers her. That, yes, her mother did take everything from her and the loss of her dad and then the subsequent unwinding of her time with him coming to understand he was also mentally cursed, but that she could let go of the past and be tethered by the daughters she loved.
Certainly a lot to think over with this one, but it’s a good one.
A tragic story, after also just reading Lucky this week, and I saw a lot of parallels between Alice Sebold’s own family and the fictitious Knightleys. While the whole story, the unwinding of Helen’s childhood, failed marriage, and then her parents’ old age is devastating and bleak, there is a beautiful moment at the end when Helen sees the notes that tethered Mrs. Leverton to the world and realizes what tethers her. That, yes, her mother did take everything from her and the loss of her dad and then the subsequent unwinding of her time with him coming to understand he was also mentally cursed, but that she could let go of the past and be tethered by the daughters she loved.
Certainly a lot to think over with this one, but it’s a good one.
rebeccabehm1's review against another edition
2.0
The back cover is what intrigued me and got me purchasing this book. I could not get into it at all the the beginning, but figured anything Alice Sebold wrote would be worth pushing through. I tried to read some reviews to encourage me to finish the book, they were not very convincing but I hate not finishing books. There were a few times where the book kept me roped in and wanting to read more, but overall it was time i wish i had spent reading something else. Very confusing at first, and the main character continues to be an oddity throughout the entirety of the book.
secretspellbinder's review against another edition
1.0
I tried to like the book, I really did but it was awful. Lovely Bones or her memoir Lucky were amazing, so I had high hopes. Those hopes crashed and burned so quickly.
emjay24's review against another edition
2.0
This book is by the author of Lovely Bones. I loved that book, even though it was SO SAD. I was expecting to be sad but love it again... eh. This is a book about a woman who kills her mom. She says that on the first page. She is crazy. But not good crazy. The whole thing is one depressing train wreck. I read the whole thing, but I didn't particularly like it. Nothing drew me in. I expected more after such a great last book, but I guess that used up her mojo.