A review by rachbreads
The Ship of Brides by Jojo Moyes

slow-paced
  • Strong character development? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No

1.75

I thought the concept was really good, and I love that she thought to turn her grandmother's story into a book. The idea of over 600 Australian women bunking on an aircraft carrier to cross the ocean and reunite with their husbands is super interesting and ripe ground for a story. 

But the writing was just so messy. The structure was wild - the POV shifts were so rapid and it always took forever to figure out who was talking by which point you'd have to go back and start the section over. The frame narrative was completely unnecessary and introduced yet more characters for us to keep track of that added absolutely nothing to the core story. She would spend paragraphs on the working of the boat but left important characters' stories unfinished
wtf happened to Jean?!?
. Really unlikeable characters never grew or changed, they just stayed annoying right to the end *cough*
Avice
*cough* I just basically skimmed major parts of it and finished the book solely to figure out what happened with Frances. 
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