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A review by samarakroeger
The Distance Between Us by Maggie O'Farrell
challenging
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
2.5
yikes. this was so confusing? Maggie O’Farrell keeps switching between two main threads, a ton of different timelines, and WAY too many inconsequential side characters. It felt unfocused and like she was trying to discuss too many themes at the same time without giving any of them sufficient depth. I ended up just not really caring about any of the characters because of the kaleidoscopic nature of the novel.
I don’t have a great track record with books where the two threads eventually become one at the end somehow, and the sappiness that came out of the blue in The Distance Between Us was no exception. (And what a boring, generic title — I should have known!)
Anyways, the writing was beautiful on a sentence-level but that can never fully save a book for me.
I don’t have a great track record with books where the two threads eventually become one at the end somehow, and the sappiness that came out of the blue in The Distance Between Us was no exception. (And what a boring, generic title — I should have known!)
Anyways, the writing was beautiful on a sentence-level but that can never fully save a book for me.