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3.69 AVERAGE
3.69 AVERAGE
The premise of the book was amazing.
I enjoyed the form of the book. It was refreshing to get perspective from each character. The way grief was explored through different characters, at different stages was refreshing. Additionally, we were able to observe how each character progressed through their emotions and how they made it to the other side. The only criticism would be that not every character was explored equally. I would have loved more of Luke and the impact his family life had on him or to explore how ginger approached obtaining the life she wanted.
Overall the book was good.
I enjoyed the form of the book. It was refreshing to get perspective from each character. The way grief was explored through different characters, at different stages was refreshing. Additionally, we were able to observe how each character progressed through their emotions and how they made it to the other side. The only criticism would be that not every character was explored equally. I would have loved more of Luke and the impact his family life had on him or to explore how ginger approached obtaining the life she wanted.
Overall the book was good.
I liked this book. I almost picked it as my book of the month a few months ago but I picked “The Family” instead. I liked this one better. I love stories with intersecting narratives and I liked all the characters in this book even though many were pretty shallow. The problem I had is that each chapter was told from the perspective of a different character and there were a lot of characters. I think it would have been better if there had been only a single chapter from each character and then there were glimpses of the other characters in the background of the new stories. Or, if there were fewer characters and their stories were more fleshed out. But, as it was, the stories of each character were a weird in-between length that I didn’t love. But, overall it was pretty good.
This is one of those books that will stay with me for a long time. It’s a short read, but so powerful and so beautifully written. A Little Hope follows a group of inter-connected characters in a small Connecticut town as they face problems, both big and small, over the course of a year. A character driven novel with such real and idealized and flawed characters that kept me glued to the pages, this book is about love and loss and grief and hope. It’s about how people go through their lives facing these things. I highly recommend this one.
In A Little Hope, Ethan Joella wrote honestly and beautifully about life and the complicated and often convoluted feelings we all experience: grief, love, doubt, anger, longing, nostalgia, hope. I love how this novel switches between characters’ perspectives; it illustrated how you never know what someone is going through and what they are feeling unless you talk with them. It felt like a breath of fresh air when those complicated conversations were had between the characters.
This book made me feel grateful and appreciative of the people in my life, and reminded me to be gracious, because we are all human and deal with so many things in this life. It’s too short to let things be unsaid.
This book made me feel grateful and appreciative of the people in my life, and reminded me to be gracious, because we are all human and deal with so many things in this life. It’s too short to let things be unsaid.
This one was just okay for me. There were so many stories of loss and grief but most felt like they had been left open ended.
slow-paced
hopeful
sad
medium-paced
Grab the tissues. Don't get me wrong, I'm not afraid of sad books (I gave A Little Life 5 stars, after all), but this was simply so. freaking. sad. The book reads more like a series of character driven short stories about a group of people in a small town going through heartbreaking loss, grief, regret, disappointment, and of course, a little hope. The writing was beautiful and the message is important, but the format with so many different POVs felt a little wonky and distracting.
Rounded down from 3.5 stars. This was a slow burn character study of 10ish residents of a small town. It felt trauma porn-y at times (lots and lots of sadness). I kept having to force myself to pick it back up.
I wish the author had focused on fewer characters and achieved more depth with each. Some folks didn’t need to be included at all - at times, this book felt a mile wide and an inch deep.
I wish the author had focused on fewer characters and achieved more depth with each. Some folks didn’t need to be included at all - at times, this book felt a mile wide and an inch deep.