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A review by balletbookworm
Half-Blown Rose by Leesa Cross-Smith
3.0
A solid MEH. Had I not been reading this to lead the book club discussion, I probably would have get it down somewhere in the middle and probably not picked it back up again.
There was a part of me that really did empathize with Vincent - yeah, her husband hiding this very autobiographical book and his past from her was really a betrayal of trust. And it's going to take some sorting out. And you can see how an affair with a younger man might come into the picture.
But then this almost came under "pot calling the kettle black" and she's lying about the affair while simultaneously being pissed that someone came onto her husband and some other stuff and then a "wants to have her cake and eat it too" situation and then it starts feeling very meta and is this a script adaptation of Cillian's book and bleeeeaaaaahhhhhhh I just didn't really care about Vincent or Cillian at all by the end.
There was a part of me that really did empathize with Vincent - yeah, her husband hiding this very autobiographical book and his past from her was really a betrayal of trust. And it's going to take some sorting out. And you can see how an affair with a younger man might come into the picture.
But then this almost came under "pot calling the kettle black" and she's lying about the affair while simultaneously being pissed that someone came onto her husband and some other stuff and then a "wants to have her cake and eat it too" situation and then it starts feeling very meta and is this a script adaptation of Cillian's book and bleeeeaaaaahhhhhhh I just didn't really care about Vincent or Cillian at all by the end.