A review by jessrock
Wickett's Remedy by Myla Goldberg

4.0

By the author of [book: Bee Season]. This one definitely isn't as good as [book: Bee Season], but it's a very different book and is enjoyable in its own right. The artifices of the storytelling are awkward at first, between the marginalia written by dead people and the consistent ending of chapters with cryptic letters from an unknown author and articles from newspapers and newsletters. While the pattern of the book got more comfortable as I worked my way through the story, I never got completely used to the way the book was set up, and think it's ultimately a little too gimmicky to be a wholly successful book. However, the story is a compelling one and is well worth reading, especially if you don't go to it expecting another [book: Bee Season]. It's a very different novel, but still worth reading.