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3.45 AVERAGE
3.45 AVERAGE
3.5 stars rounded down.
I wanted to love this book after reading and loving Last Summer at the Golden Hotel but while the premise waa great, The Floating Feldmans fell a little flat for me.
There were no likeable characters and each chapter is basically an internal monologue of their inner thoughts which are narcissistic and hateful. They all have secrets they are keeping from each other which should have made for some reality tv-esque drama but didn't quite deliver. I was looking for more comedy and less depression. The last several chapters were much better and the ending was kinda of sad so it's definitely a mixed bag.
I wanted to love this book after reading and loving Last Summer at the Golden Hotel but while the premise waa great, The Floating Feldmans fell a little flat for me.
There were no likeable characters and each chapter is basically an internal monologue of their inner thoughts which are narcissistic and hateful. They all have secrets they are keeping from each other which should have made for some reality tv-esque drama but didn't quite deliver. I was looking for more comedy and less depression. The last several chapters were much better and the ending was kinda of sad so it's definitely a mixed bag.
I really liked all the fun character story lines that were easy to keep track of. The family troubles were all realistic and had enough humor to laugh along with.
funny
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I really enjoyed Last Summer at the Golden Hotel and so was eager to pick this up, but I struggled with it start to finish. Unlike Golden Hotel, where I was mostly rooting for all the characters, I found all the characters in Floating Feldmans to be unlikeable and flat.
Meet the dysfunctional Feldmans! Matriarch Annette decides she wants a family cruise for her 70 th birthday. And it goes as well as you would expect. Families are hard, but they are always there for you.
The Feldmans' matriarch Annette has organized a cruise for her family for her 70th Birthday, not that she celebrates birthdays, because a woman never tells her age. But, a last hoorah so to speak because her husband David is dying. The family doesn't get together much, and so this is their chance to catch up on everything they've missed. But this get together doesn't go as planned, in fact, it spectacularly bombs, and this is the joy of The Floating Feldmans.
The story was told in alternating viewpoints, mainly Elise's, but also Freddy's, and Annettes. We have Elise, her husband, and her two children. I didn't like Elise from the start, she just seemed too uppity for me. But then her dirty secret started to reveal itself, her addiction to shopping, and it made her a bit more normal in my eyes. While I didn't like her, she made a good, unlikable character.
Freddy was a good guy and I liked him from the start. He didn't want to end up like his family, and he didn't want to be the lost cause they had always declared of him. So turning your life around and become a multi-millionaire seems like just the way to do it. Only his family doesn't know of his fortune and how he made it.
This was a fun read for me, I liked the characters, both likable and not, and I liked the storyline. I knew from the blurb that things were going to go spectacularly wrong, and they did. A large portion of the book was setting up our characters, and I think the author did it well because it was a more complete storyline. There were amusing parts, but it wasn't the hilarity I was expecting from the genre it was labeled. But I don't think that detracts from how good the book is. A very enjoyable read.
The story was told in alternating viewpoints, mainly Elise's, but also Freddy's, and Annettes. We have Elise, her husband, and her two children. I didn't like Elise from the start, she just seemed too uppity for me. But then her dirty secret started to reveal itself, her addiction to shopping, and it made her a bit more normal in my eyes. While I didn't like her, she made a good, unlikable character.
Freddy was a good guy and I liked him from the start. He didn't want to end up like his family, and he didn't want to be the lost cause they had always declared of him. So turning your life around and become a multi-millionaire seems like just the way to do it. Only his family doesn't know of his fortune and how he made it.
This was a fun read for me, I liked the characters, both likable and not, and I liked the storyline. I knew from the blurb that things were going to go spectacularly wrong, and they did. A large portion of the book was setting up our characters, and I think the author did it well because it was a more complete storyline. There were amusing parts, but it wasn't the hilarity I was expecting from the genre it was labeled. But I don't think that detracts from how good the book is. A very enjoyable read.
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
medium-paced
A cruise with your entire extended family.... what could go wrong, right? Elyssa Friedland’s humorous take on a family vacation gone very wrong was so very fun to read!
The Feldman Family cruise, to celebrate matriarch Annette’s big birthday is filled with revealing secret after secret - held by almost every family member... and laugh out loud scenes revealing them all.
I would suggest this to all my friends who not only loved Elyssa’s debut, but who enjoy novels filled with family dynamics.
The Feldman Family cruise, to celebrate matriarch Annette’s big birthday is filled with revealing secret after secret - held by almost every family member... and laugh out loud scenes revealing them all.
I would suggest this to all my friends who not only loved Elyssa’s debut, but who enjoy novels filled with family dynamics.
emotional
funny
reflective
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:
Yes
slow-paced
I read this because it was on a list of books people would like if they love Schitt’s Creek. There were some funny parts that made me chuckle, but otherwise it was pretty slow.