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A review by howifeelaboutbooks
The Doll's House by Lisa Unger
1.0
This popped up for me on Kindle Unlimited and, since I've read a few Lisa Unger novels, I decided to give it a try. I love flash fiction and short stories, so the idea of finishing this in one sitting was really appealing.
It ended up taking me... four weeks? Not of constant reading, mind you, but more like picking it up, not getting into it, and putting it back down. I was determined to finish it though, and in a way, I'm glad I did, but not because it was an amazing work of fiction.
My biggest issue with this story is that it should have been a novel. At least, with everything contained in it now, it should be a novel to do each point justice.
The crux of the story is that Jules is moving in with her new boyfriend, Kirin. Seems simple enough, right? Except her writer husband killed himself not long ago. The husband she met in college and had a kid with and managed his career. Plus, she's only known Kirin less than a year. And she's uprooting her teenage daughter to move in with him. That's already a recipe for disaster because what mom wouldn't be more careful about doing that to her daughter with a strange man? But, okay, let's put that disbelief on hold and pretend we don't want to know more about the husband that killed himself.
Read my full review (including possible spoilers) at HowIFeelAboutBooks.com
It ended up taking me... four weeks? Not of constant reading, mind you, but more like picking it up, not getting into it, and putting it back down. I was determined to finish it though, and in a way, I'm glad I did, but not because it was an amazing work of fiction.
My biggest issue with this story is that it should have been a novel. At least, with everything contained in it now, it should be a novel to do each point justice.
The crux of the story is that Jules is moving in with her new boyfriend, Kirin. Seems simple enough, right? Except her writer husband killed himself not long ago. The husband she met in college and had a kid with and managed his career. Plus, she's only known Kirin less than a year. And she's uprooting her teenage daughter to move in with him. That's already a recipe for disaster because what mom wouldn't be more careful about doing that to her daughter with a strange man? But, okay, let's put that disbelief on hold and pretend we don't want to know more about the husband that killed himself.
Read my full review (including possible spoilers) at HowIFeelAboutBooks.com