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Grown Ups
by Marian Keyes
Grown Ups was such an interesting read for me. First of all, I might have never have picked it up had it not been for the #sykesandsavidgebookclub but I was curious and, as they say, the rest is history. I have perhaps unfairly categorised Marian Keyes previous to reading this as a writer of a genre that I wouldn’t normally lean towards. That is, lighter women’s contemporary fiction and I normally like my fiction with a bit more “meat on the bones.”
I’ve been proved wrong on a number of occasions when my preconceptions about a novel or an author are way off and I was delighted that the same happened again with Grown Ups. At its heart, it appears to be a novel featuring a large Irish family, the relationship and the interactions between them all but essentially, the plot goes much deeper than this and explores a range of intricate, specific problems that each member of the family is struggling with.
There is a huge cast of characters to get to grips with and although I love a varied cast, it did take me a while to fix who was connected with whom, especially the younger members of the family. However, once I had that straight in my read, it was easy to become emotionally invested in each character’s lives and start to understand them as an individual.
That’s the great thing about Grown Ups, you really do become embroiled in the characters and how there are thinking and feeling. They all stand on their own as completely authentic personalities and I really started to believe they existed.
For me, I found Grown Ups to be an addictive, page-turning read. If I had one criticism, (and it’s splitting hairs really), it’s that I felt like I knew where the story was heading and that I could predict what was going to happen for one particularly juicy part of the narrative so it wasn’t a big surprise to me. Apart from that, great read and I’m pleased I’ve finally read some Marian Keyes!
Four stars
I’ve been proved wrong on a number of occasions when my preconceptions about a novel or an author are way off and I was delighted that the same happened again with Grown Ups. At its heart, it appears to be a novel featuring a large Irish family, the relationship and the interactions between them all but essentially, the plot goes much deeper than this and explores a range of intricate, specific problems that each member of the family is struggling with.
There is a huge cast of characters to get to grips with and although I love a varied cast, it did take me a while to fix who was connected with whom, especially the younger members of the family. However, once I had that straight in my read, it was easy to become emotionally invested in each character’s lives and start to understand them as an individual.
That’s the great thing about Grown Ups, you really do become embroiled in the characters and how there are thinking and feeling. They all stand on their own as completely authentic personalities and I really started to believe they existed.
For me, I found Grown Ups to be an addictive, page-turning read. If I had one criticism, (and it’s splitting hairs really), it’s that I felt like I knew where the story was heading and that I could predict what was going to happen for one particularly juicy part of the narrative so it wasn’t a big surprise to me. Apart from that, great read and I’m pleased I’ve finally read some Marian Keyes!
Four stars