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A review by ftlobooks
The Tree House by Glenn Haybittle
Did not finish book.
When I saw this book on NetGalley, I was really intrigued and thought it would be an interesting read. I actually ended up DNFing (not finishing) the book at 40%.
It just wasn’t the book for me and felt that the writing was a little disjointed and the female characters were oversexualised. In one part of the story there is mention of the grandfather feeling uncomfortable looking back and thinking about Ada’s body as an 11 year old girl. This made me feel deeply uncomfortable and I didn’t feel as though it was necessary to include this in the story at all, the parts where the grandson describes a female on the train made me feel uncomfortable too. The whole description of Karen was derogatory and I didn’t feel as though talking about “the swell of her breasts” was in any way necessary.
While the parts that were focusing on how the Holocaust and the Nazi occupation of France affected the people living there were īnsightful, the story as a whole didn’t draw me in as a reader. The novel was completely different to how I thought it would be and therefore I couldn’t read the entirety of it. While this may have not been the book for me, you may enjoy it.
It just wasn’t the book for me and felt that the writing was a little disjointed and the female characters were oversexualised. In one part of the story there is mention of the grandfather feeling uncomfortable looking back and thinking about Ada’s body as an 11 year old girl. This made me feel deeply uncomfortable and I didn’t feel as though it was necessary to include this in the story at all, the parts where the grandson describes a female on the train made me feel uncomfortable too. The whole description of Karen was derogatory and I didn’t feel as though talking about “the swell of her breasts” was in any way necessary.
While the parts that were focusing on how the Holocaust and the Nazi occupation of France affected the people living there were īnsightful, the story as a whole didn’t draw me in as a reader. The novel was completely different to how I thought it would be and therefore I couldn’t read the entirety of it. While this may have not been the book for me, you may enjoy it.