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A review by sarahreadsinin
Little Bandaged Days by Kyra Wilder
2.0
This was an interesting premise but I feel that it was not executed well.
A woman moves to Switzerland with her husband and two young children. Her husband, stressed and busy with the responsibilities of his new job, leaves her alone more and more. With no one around to talk with or get support from, she begins exhibiting more and more signs of mental illness.
I was interested in the narrator, in how she viewed the world, and her life in general. Unfortunately because the book is written entirely from her point of view, you don’t know what is real and what is part of her illness. We also learn the names of minor characters- the boss, the assistant- but never the narrator or her family. That is a style that some readers prefer but it drove me nuts.
This review is longer than most of my positive reviews, because I feel as though the bones of a good book are there but the style was not a good fit for me.
A woman moves to Switzerland with her husband and two young children. Her husband, stressed and busy with the responsibilities of his new job, leaves her alone more and more. With no one around to talk with or get support from, she begins exhibiting more and more signs of mental illness.
I was interested in the narrator, in how she viewed the world, and her life in general. Unfortunately because the book is written entirely from her point of view, you don’t know what is real and what is part of her illness. We also learn the names of minor characters- the boss, the assistant- but never the narrator or her family. That is a style that some readers prefer but it drove me nuts.
This review is longer than most of my positive reviews, because I feel as though the bones of a good book are there but the style was not a good fit for me.