A review by ilseoo
The House of Hawthorne by Erika Robuck

2.0

I liked both the beginning and ending, but unfortunately, I felt bored throughout everything in between. The writing style failed to make the topic of married family life interesting for me. I hoped for an interesting character study, for which there was much potential since many impactful events occurred throughout the novel which each would have been a great topic to delve into, but I felt that everything was rushed and we never got beyond the surface-level. Moreover, the romance aspect felt unrealistic and the way in which the dialogue between the two lovers was formulated often left me cringing to the point where I read passages aloud to my friend, so we could both laugh at them.