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thewittyreader 's review for:
A Nearly Normal Family
by Mattias Edvardsson
I liked this book - but I didn’t love it. It’s definitely a “slow burn” book, and by slow burn I mean it’s so excruciatingly and painstakingly slow that you’re about half way through the book with no progress on the actual plot and you begin to wonder why you’re still reading this but you trudge on and push through because you’re already this invested and want to make finding out what happens worth it and not feel like you just wasted half your evening for nothing.
If this book had been in a single point of view, or even moved at a continuous moving pace, I probably would have enjoyed it. The switching of the points of view from 3 different people were not the problem. It was the fact that each character was reintroduced, developed, and whenever the “switch” happened, the story line was brought back to the beginning. I do not need to read the same scene in three points of view - I wanna know what the heck is going on and move forward already. I felt that the POV from three different sources just weren’t important for the story, especially in the way it was told.
But, I still finished it because there was still a small part of me that was intrigued in finding out what happens and how it happened. So, I guess it did succeed in holding some of my curious attention.
Not a must read, and luckily it’s a quick read. So if you have an evening to kill and have read everything on your TBR List, go for it.
If this book had been in a single point of view, or even moved at a continuous moving pace, I probably would have enjoyed it. The switching of the points of view from 3 different people were not the problem. It was the fact that each character was reintroduced, developed, and whenever the “switch” happened, the story line was brought back to the beginning. I do not need to read the same scene in three points of view - I wanna know what the heck is going on and move forward already. I felt that the POV from three different sources just weren’t important for the story, especially in the way it was told.
But, I still finished it because there was still a small part of me that was intrigued in finding out what happens and how it happened. So, I guess it did succeed in holding some of my curious attention.
Not a must read, and luckily it’s a quick read. So if you have an evening to kill and have read everything on your TBR List, go for it.