A review by honniker
Gather The Daughters by Jennie Melamed

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

Here's the thing, there's an aspect of this that normally, I would think is interesting.
The fact that the girls don't end up taking down the rulers of the island and essentially, the final main character standing ends up leaving with her family.
But I'm pregnant and hormonal and have been having trouble lately with fiction that is sad and depressing. I'm like "I can read non-fiction with depressing stuff" for some reason the real-life stuff doesn't bother me, the the trend of depressing fiction does. It doesn't help that I've picked some weird books since the beginning of the year. 

Anyway, on the one hand the book is well written in the sense that I think it portrays how people deal with abuse well. It kind of makes sense too because the author is a Psychiatric nurse practitioner specializing in child abuse. So I imagine she knows what she's talking about to an extent. The book caused me to think during the times I wasn't reading it, but mostly I was just dwelling on the fact that it was super depressing
and pretty much all the main characters except one die.
So if you aren't in the mood for that kind of story, stay away from this one.
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