Review by katiej - Evenings and Weekends

katiej 's review for:

Evenings and Weekends by Oisín McKenna

4.5

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Evenings and Weekends is the perfect book for a hot sticky weekend which is what it was when I was reading it, I felt so immersed in the novel because we were going through the third heatwave in only a short amount of weeks. The book is set during a heatwave in June 2019, it only takes place over a weekend which is why is feels so immersive and fast paced. We follow a number of characters who are all interlinked in some way, Maggie who is pregnant and her boyfriend Ed, Phil who hates his office job and lives for the weekend, the housemate he is falling for, Rosaleen, Phil mothers who has been diagnosed with cancer and feels like a side character in her own life. There are also a few other people thrown into the mix as well. You get invested in everyone’s stories really quickly and they all feel like your friends within 50 pages or so.

An intense, sometimes steamy, heartfelt read, about adulthood, friendships that we take from childhood into adulthood and how they develop or in some cases don’t, the relationships with our parents and how they change as we grow up and lead different lives to what they perhaps envisaged for us. The perfect summer read. No high stakes no high drama, just the complexities of adult life.

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