A review by saram618
Rutherford Park by Elizabeth Cooke

3.0

This book was just okay for me (2.5 stars, but I'll round up). I think part of the problem was that I wanted it to be Downton Abbey, and it just wasn't. I can't say that I actually liked any of the characters, so it was hard to care what was happening to them. I'm not sure if I disliked the characters because of their actions or because they were all written in a very flat way. I never got the sense that I was allowed to know the characters outside of the appearance they wanted projected to the world. Even when the facade was broken, I didn't think any of the characters reacted in a way that showed any real emotion. Also, the jumping between stories created even more of a disconnect for me. I felt that it often took a while to figure out which character I was reading about and what was happening (sometimes the story would shift time a little, making it somewhat difficult to follow along with). Overall, it was just slow, lacked likable characters, and just didn't have a spark.