marybethvingi 's review for:

A Little Hope by Ethan Joella
3.0

Grab the tissues. Don't get me wrong, I'm not afraid of sad books (I gave A Little Life 5 stars, after all), but this was simply so. freaking. sad. The book reads more like a series of character driven short stories about a group of people in a small town going through heartbreaking loss, grief, regret, disappointment, and of course, a little hope. The writing was beautiful and the message is important, but the format with so many different POVs felt a little wonky and distracting.