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A review by vaparks
Under the Rainbow by Celia Laskey
2.0
"...if we listened to our fear whenever it started getting loud, we’d never do anything.”
This book was a struggle for me-- as you can tell by my two months it took me to finish it. It was my book club's September book pick, and I have missed book club two consecutive months for still being stuck on this one. For me, it was entirely due to the writing style. The way the book was formatted with its multiple, single-use narrators left me with a muddy, incohesive storyline.
To be fair, I am typically not a reader who enjoys multiple narrators anyway, but I have found in the past that if a story is compelling enough, and the characters are well-fleshed out, it doesn't bother me as much as it used to. Unfortunately, since every chapter is a different character in the story, it left me with a bunch of surface-level relationships with each one, longing to understand them more. I wish Laskey would have chosen fewer characters to narrate, and used them on more than one occasion, so the Reader had the opportunity to dive deeper with them and have a better connection to the plotline.
Overall, it was quite "put-downable" for me, which I hate to say because I had high hopes for this one. The good news? I've finally finished it and can start my book club's November pick on time!
This book was a struggle for me-- as you can tell by my two months it took me to finish it. It was my book club's September book pick, and I have missed book club two consecutive months for still being stuck on this one. For me, it was entirely due to the writing style. The way the book was formatted with its multiple, single-use narrators left me with a muddy, incohesive storyline.
To be fair, I am typically not a reader who enjoys multiple narrators anyway, but I have found in the past that if a story is compelling enough, and the characters are well-fleshed out, it doesn't bother me as much as it used to. Unfortunately, since every chapter is a different character in the story, it left me with a bunch of surface-level relationships with each one, longing to understand them more. I wish Laskey would have chosen fewer characters to narrate, and used them on more than one occasion, so the Reader had the opportunity to dive deeper with them and have a better connection to the plotline.
Overall, it was quite "put-downable" for me, which I hate to say because I had high hopes for this one. The good news? I've finally finished it and can start my book club's November pick on time!