A review by whereismychapstick
Follow the Hummingbird by Elena Carter

challenging sad slow-paced

3.0

“…because pain is a cunning bitch, hiding in a dark corner and waiting for the right moment to come out.”

Ummm… What? Tina is grieving the loss of her husband. Understandable. Why, though, have her friend’s Natalie and Mike not stepped in and done something besides allow her to want to spend more time in these sleeping worlds so she can try and see her dead husband? Red flags are going off everywhere yet no one seems to care enough to help her the way she needs it. 

Those freaking worlds. So much talking about her dream worlds. She is told repeatedly they are dangerous, hard to navigate, and she needs to try harder to understand them or she could die in them. Yet Tina wants to spend as much time as possible there. Why is no one trying to talk sense into her? Why are they allowing her to sleep for extended periods of time so she can stay in her dream worlds?

The storyline of Tina and Natalie, Tina and Mike, and even Tina and Kate are interesting. Why couldn’t the story be how the three of them pulled together and helped Tina out of a hard time? That would be a good story. That would be something that made me feel for Tina instead of wanting to drag her to a hospital for mental health help.