A review by kittykornerlibrarian
Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper

2.0

I'm sorry, hasn't this been done before? Isn't there another recent novel (The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry) about an elderly person suddenly taking off for a really long walk across the country? In any case, I couldn't like this book. I don't like books that take themselves too seriously, and this is one of them. I could not get inside of any of the characters, and the plot was not engaging enough to make up for it. I finished it because it got good reviews and some of my library patrons have asked me about it. And that's the most positive thing I can say, is that I did finish it, reluctantly.