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pellegrinic's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
emotional
reflective
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
meghzz_reads's review against another edition
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.75
linda48's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Content Warnings
Minor: Confinement, Gun violence, and Death
rosemwood's review against another edition
3.0
Loosely based on the events that took place in Lima Peru back in 1996 where terrorists held a a bench of people at a party hostage for over 120 days. Sounds interesting doesn't it. Well some how the author was able to romanticize this and it seemed that everyone was civilized and calm and the hostages made friendship and feel in love with some of the terrorists. Can we say Stockholm Syndrome. I was so bored. The plot was boring the characters were boring.
emmamd's review against another edition
emotional
inspiring
reflective
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
jenslc's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
juliarziegler's review against another edition
4.0
Holy moly this was unlike any Ann Patchett book I’ve read. Talk about developing the characters…this novel has virtually one setting - it is ALL about the characters. Its friendship, its grief, its romance, its power, its music. I think I can’t give it 5 stars because I hated the ending. I don’t mean the content of the ending, but how she wrote the ending.
mjaborn's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
sad
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
4.75
savaging's review against another edition
4.0
You know when you hear those stories of snakes in zoos that befriend one of the rats they were supposed to eat? This story reminds me of the human equivalent of this preposterous grace, the failure that can allow beauty and even love to slip in under the door. Camus said it's necessary to imagine that Sisyphus is happy, trapped in an unending chore, and Patchett wrote a novel to convince us sometimes happiness like that can come easy.