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A review by jenbsbooks
Eddie Winston Is Looking for Love by Marianne Cronin
slow-paced
4.5
This has been getting some buzz, and looked like a light, enjoyable read. It lived up to the hype and expectation. Very cute. As I waited a few days before writing the review, I struggled a bit to remember the story. I had gone with audio but I had the Kindle copy, which is preferrable as I skim/review and remember.
Eddie of course, is the MC ... and he has the most chapters (his POV). Very easy/conversational tone, 1st person/present tense. Almost 90, never been kissed, still working in a consignment shop, where he finds some treasures from other's lives after they have passed on. Eddie is sweet and super likeable (by other characters ... by readers).
About eight chapters in there is a switch, to Bridie ... in the past. Starting in 1954. 3rd person, present tense (although memories are in past tense). About 15 chapters in ... Bella. We'd been introduced to Bella earlier, in Eddie's POV, but now get inside her head, via letters written as a therapy assignment (in italics in text). Written as a letter would be, 1st person/past tense.
I'd read How The Penguins Saved Veronica not too long ago, and this had some similarities - with the three different POVs (one older, one younger, one written, in Penguins it was blog posts). No penguins here ... but there is Pushkin, the guinea pig. A fun storyline following him.
No chronological chapters listed, just chapter headings ... and some SHORT chapters. I think this was more obvious in print than in audio. Three "parts" (I don't remember specific distinctions between the parts).
I felt like there were purposeful red herrings ... possible love interests for Eddie. Another event that was purposefully misleading to the readers the funeral for Eddie Winston, oh, that is a different Edward Winston ....
In audio, there were three narrators and they were all great. I was so glad to have three distinct voices to keep the three POVs separate. Even though they were written with distinct voices, the narration added a lot for me.
I think all the proFanity (x19) came from Bella ;)
Other words I noted: snuck, cacophony, dais, bespoke, synecdoche
Not really related to anything in the story, but this was an interesting thought ... "a 1950s diner that is so vivid and in no way how I remember the 1950s. I wonder if other people remember the fifties like this—milkshakes and jukeboxes and color simply because they have been told so many times, over and over, that this is what the 1950s were like. What will the themed diners of the 2020s be? I wonder. Hand sanitizer and face masks and toilet rolls stockpiled into towers probably."
Eddie of course, is the MC ... and he has the most chapters (his POV). Very easy/conversational tone, 1st person/present tense. Almost 90, never been kissed, still working in a consignment shop, where he finds some treasures from other's lives after they have passed on. Eddie is sweet and super likeable (by other characters ... by readers).
About eight chapters in there is a switch, to Bridie ... in the past. Starting in 1954. 3rd person, present tense (although memories are in past tense). About 15 chapters in ... Bella. We'd been introduced to Bella earlier, in Eddie's POV, but now get inside her head, via letters written as a therapy assignment (in italics in text). Written as a letter would be, 1st person/past tense.
I'd read How The Penguins Saved Veronica not too long ago, and this had some similarities - with the three different POVs (one older, one younger, one written, in Penguins it was blog posts). No penguins here ... but there is Pushkin, the guinea pig. A fun storyline following him.
No chronological chapters listed, just chapter headings ... and some SHORT chapters. I think this was more obvious in print than in audio. Three "parts" (I don't remember specific distinctions between the parts).
I felt like there were purposeful red herrings ... possible love interests for Eddie. Another event that was purposefully misleading to the readers
In audio, there were three narrators and they were all great. I was so glad to have three distinct voices to keep the three POVs separate. Even though they were written with distinct voices, the narration added a lot for me.
I think all the proFanity (x19) came from Bella ;)
Other words I noted: snuck, cacophony, dais, bespoke, synecdoche
Not really related to anything in the story, but this was an interesting thought ... "a 1950s diner that is so vivid and in no way how I remember the 1950s. I wonder if other people remember the fifties like this—milkshakes and jukeboxes and color simply because they have been told so many times, over and over, that this is what the 1950s were like. What will the themed diners of the 2020s be? I wonder. Hand sanitizer and face masks and toilet rolls stockpiled into towers probably."