pasc96 's review for:

I See You Everywhere by Julia Glass

2.0

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I wish GoodReads had half-star ratings, as I think this deserves 2 1/2 stars. Julia Glass hit a home run with "Three Junes," her debut novel, but with "I See You Everywhere," her third, we get something more of a grounder. I appreciated the form of this novel more than the content, as Glass succeeds with two alternating first-person accounts, jumping through time, place, and extenuating circumstances with relative ease. Yet I think the ultimate enjoyment of the book depends on whether you can appreciate and/or relate to the struggles of Louisa and Clem, the two protagonists. Some of their issues I found very gripping, and some just left me scratching my head. Glass also takes a dark turn in the final act, which I didn't find 100% plausible, given the nature of what we've learned about these characters thus far. Yet -- when Glass gets things right, particularly when she chronicles the tough push-pull relationships within families, she's peerless.