A review by tahdens
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

The second half of the book was so much more engaging than the first half of the book, which just confirmed my dislike for terminal-illness tropes in books because clearly everyone know what's going to happen, and I found Lenni annoying. And Margot's chapters was definitely more interesting than Lenni's or whatever was happening in the present.

But with Margot revealing herself to be the bisexual grandma I never knew I needed, the story did pick up a bit. Although I didn't understand how Margot supposedly had all this artistic talent with actual technique to back it up when in her story it looked like she never had any artistic training, and why, as a self-actualized bisexual, she was still afraid to come out to a teenager in 2015.
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