A review by kshimer
The Borrower by Rebecca Makkai

3.0

Wanted to like this book more than I did. A kid who loves books, a librarian, a homosexual-converting Christian bad guy...what's not to like? But for some reason the story didn't work for me. I think it was the Russian lineage side story that lost me and seemed overly ambitious and not particularly helpful in telling the story. I thought Miss Hull, however, was convincing in her manic mental dialogue, just what you would expect someone in her position to be experiencing.