A review by dserogina
Delayed Rays of a Star by Amanda Lee Koe

reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.0

At first, I was expecting sort of different plot as from the synopsis and was quite surprised when we jumped to the time when Marlene was in her late 80s. I thought that these characters would have a story together, but they went completely separate ways, yet connecting at different points of the timeline. My favorite POV was about Leni, especially her last part in this book. The building of the book was interesting and new to me because I was expecting that each chapter we would get a different POV, yet we were getting a solid story formed in cluster of chapters. I loved chapters about side characters, it really gave a fresh perspective. In general, the book was pretty great, the writing was comfortably sophisticated, some quotes really captured my attention which happens really rare, but this book wouldn’t be my favorite, something was missing for me and I can’t define it.