A review by emswantree
Impersonation by Heidi Pitlor

2.0

This book had a lot of promise for me. A single parent living on the margin who is a ghostwriter for the rich and famous sounds like an interesting storyline. Right? But Allie (the single parent ghostwriter) is not a great narrator. She lacks any dynamic characteristics and I didn’t connect with her at all. Maybe that was the point I thought. Maybe she as the ghostwriter is this clean slate of a person so she can take on the famous people she writes for? But if that is the case, then it would be important to have a lot of meaningful interaction with the people she is writing for. And that doesn’t happen either. So the boredom continues. The crisis in this book you see coming so early on that when it happens you feel grateful. A “let’s put this behind us” kind of moment.
It just all felt like eating too much vanilla ice cream. Vanilla ice cream is fine but about three bites in you kind of wish for a chocolate chip or a strawberry or just anything to add to the flavor. I know this analogy is not my best but my point is this book needed a lot of chocolate chips.