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A review by cemoses
Bittersweet by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore
3.0
I think this incorrectly advertised accurately as a thriller morality tale. This book to a large extent as a romance novel(poor girl and rich boy fall in love;rich boy will take care of girl) which to me is a negative; it is a genre I don't read. However, some people may like that the book is to a large extent a romance novel.
I nearly gave up in the middle of the book because to me it seemed to be a fairy tale about of poor girl makes good through rich friends. Too much of the book was about the apparently blessed life of the very rich and their summer homes. However from the middle to the end of the book I found some real suspense. Nothing is as it appears to be. It reminded me a little bit of Shutter Island but not as good.
However, the ending does not resolve all issues. The book backs away from asking deep moral questions in favor of a conventional happy ending.
A book that I liked a lot about a rich girl/poor girl friendship in college is Sigrid Nunez's The Last of Her Kind. This book also deals with class and moral issues surrounding the rich.
I nearly gave up in the middle of the book because to me it seemed to be a fairy tale about of poor girl makes good through rich friends. Too much of the book was about the apparently blessed life of the very rich and their summer homes. However from the middle to the end of the book I found some real suspense. Nothing is as it appears to be. It reminded me a little bit of Shutter Island but not as good.
However, the ending does not resolve all issues. The book backs away from asking deep moral questions in favor of a conventional happy ending.
A book that I liked a lot about a rich girl/poor girl friendship in college is Sigrid Nunez's The Last of Her Kind. This book also deals with class and moral issues surrounding the rich.