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A review by cindywindy_blogs
The Honey Thief by Elizabeth Graver
3.0
I felt that this book was just alright, I would like to give this book a 2 1/2. Nothing really awful to saw about it, yet nothing really great to say about it either. When the plot of a novel is slow (like this one), I expect greater character development and emotions. Instead I just felt passive towards all the characters.
I did not understand Burl's role in this book. Was he supposed to bring them (mother-daughter) closer together, help Eva with her stealing, teach her life lessons or what? I kept expecting Burl and Miriam to get together or at least become close friends, but that never happens. And the end, it just ends--no real conclusions, not even a direction.
I think I would have liked this book more if it focused more on the relationship between Eva and Miriam and Eva and Burl. Instead there are a lot of flashbacks with Burl and his parents and his love Alice. And then Miriam's flashbacks all involve Francis. While I thought these flashbacks, especially with Francis, were interesting, I felt the novel spent too much time in the past, and too little in the present and future. For example, the "tensions" between Eva and Miriam are only really talked about in one scene, when Miriam is on her way to work and they get into a huge argument.
I did not understand Burl's role in this book. Was he supposed to bring them (mother-daughter) closer together, help Eva with her stealing, teach her life lessons or what? I kept expecting Burl and Miriam to get together or at least become close friends, but that never happens. And the end, it just ends--no real conclusions, not even a direction.
I think I would have liked this book more if it focused more on the relationship between Eva and Miriam and Eva and Burl. Instead there are a lot of flashbacks with Burl and his parents and his love Alice. And then Miriam's flashbacks all involve Francis. While I thought these flashbacks, especially with Francis, were interesting, I felt the novel spent too much time in the past, and too little in the present and future. For example, the "tensions" between Eva and Miriam are only really talked about in one scene, when Miriam is on her way to work and they get into a huge argument.