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3.58 AVERAGE
3.58 AVERAGE
emotional
reflective
sad
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:
No
Another great Ann Patchett novel about family, race, religion, and politics. A well written and a complexly woven story that reveals itself in a 24 hr timeline. Loved the pacing throughout the novel, and I got a lot out of reading it over the first snow of the year. Wish that the end was a little longer as really wraps up very quickly/simply, though but that’s really in line with her style…
Reading it at the same time as “A Court of Thorns and Roses” may have inflated the rating to almost a 5 star read. Reading ACTOAR but with Ann Patchett’s masterful storytelling could be interesting…
ALSO this audiobook SUCKS, there’s weird music interludes that interrupt the entire narrative and yanked me right out of the story. bad bad bad.
Reading it at the same time as “A Court of Thorns and Roses” may have inflated the rating to almost a 5 star read. Reading ACTOAR but with Ann Patchett’s masterful storytelling could be interesting…
ALSO this audiobook SUCKS, there’s weird music interludes that interrupt the entire narrative and yanked me right out of the story. bad bad bad.
Enjoyable enough but it felt like it missed the mark for exploring the drama it touched on at times.
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
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
Rich white people adopting poor Black babies is not a feel-good story. Oof.
I just didn't get into this one. I found it to be a little too bizarre for me and I thought several storylines were underdeveloped.
The action of the novel takes place over 24 hours. During this time the topics of family, race, religion and duty are all explored. Former Mayor Doyle’s boys - Sullivan, Tip and Teddy have picked up something of what their father wanted for them, but not in the ways he envisages. The arrivals of Tennesse and Kenya in their lives changes everything and everyone.
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
That was the longest 24 hours in a book… not her best work.
pro: you never know what you're going to get with ann patchett books!
con: you never know what you're going to get with ann patchett books.
and this was certainly no dutch house.
CERTAINLY it was no truth and beauty.
the top reviews of this book are extremely obnoxious, pretentious, and almost disturbingly unfunny...but they are not wrong.
this book is shallow and most unforgivably of all...saccharine!
bottom line: ann patchett contains multitudes. for better and for worse.
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tbr review
books set in boston are permanently my weakness
con: you never know what you're going to get with ann patchett books.
and this was certainly no dutch house.
CERTAINLY it was no truth and beauty.
the top reviews of this book are extremely obnoxious, pretentious, and almost disturbingly unfunny...but they are not wrong.
this book is shallow and most unforgivably of all...saccharine!
bottom line: ann patchett contains multitudes. for better and for worse.
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tbr review
books set in boston are permanently my weakness
Not Patchett's best by far. No true character development, and given the fact that all but the last chapter takes place over 24 hours, there is no true way for the characters to develop that would feel authentic. I did enjoy the way the different elements were woven together, particularly about the mothers in the end.