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A review by adeleashley
Piper Perish by Kayla Cagan
3.0
I'm a bit on the fence about this novel. I finished it because I was interested enough to keep reading, which is I'm giving it 3 stars and not 2, but it was a definite struggle.
Piper, the titular character, has no redeeming qualities. I get that she is going through a hard time and is seeing her dreams of art school slip away, but she does absolutely nothing to help herself, even as her parents are telling her how she can help them make things work. It's like she believes that because she likes art, and got accepted to art school things should just fall into her lap. She ends up coming across as entitled, bratty, condescending and self-absorbed.
I also found her sister Marli a bit over the top and unrealistic, as well as her parents reactions to the situations but since the entire story is told from Piper’s perspective, everything needs to be taken with a grain of salt.
To a certain degree, I felt like this novel was set in the wrong time period. If it was set 30 or 40 years earlier, the entire story might be a bit more realistic.
Piper, the titular character, has no redeeming qualities. I get that she is going through a hard time and is seeing her dreams of art school slip away, but she does absolutely nothing to help herself, even as her parents are telling her how she can help them make things work. It's like she believes that because she likes art, and got accepted to art school things should just fall into her lap. She ends up coming across as entitled, bratty, condescending and self-absorbed.
I also found her sister Marli a bit over the top and unrealistic, as well as her parents reactions to the situations but since the entire story is told from Piper’s perspective, everything needs to be taken with a grain of salt.
To a certain degree, I felt like this novel was set in the wrong time period. If it was set 30 or 40 years earlier, the entire story might be a bit more realistic.