karen_lipkey 's review for:

The Quickening by Michelle Hoover

3.0

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This book snuck up on me. At first I hated it - so depressing! I thought, "Oh here we go! Another 'deep, dramatic, artist' author with the prose of perfect pain.. blah, blah, blah." But as the story continued I wanted to know what the hell was going to happen to everyone and I got caught up in it. There were a lot of times where the author completely lost me. The story would be going on about one topic and then all of a sudden it would seem to reference something else that had nothing to do with the moment or an event in the story that you could remember. Ex: "He grabbed another roll from the stove top. The room was warm from baking the dinner. She heard the verse in her head." What? What verse? What the hell are you talking about? What about the rolls? But outside of being completely lost every now and then, it ended up being a far more interesting story then I thought it was going to be... though I'm still confused about some of it.