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A review by kalkie
Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani
2.0
I think it's absolutely the most average book I've ever read.
It's neither good enough nor bad enough for me to get passionate about it; in other words it's average! The characters are average - not exactly boring, but neither did I really care what was happening to them. The writing is average and is pretty much contrived throughout the novel. I got the feeling that every single ""event"" was written just to give something for Ave Maria to compare herself against, or push against, and not with any care as to whether it fitted in to the story or the flow of the novel. To top it all, Trigiani herself even seems to have become bored with the writing and didn't even manage to conclude some of the storylines she'd started (the issue of Aunt Alice and the inheritance for instance). Maybe the open threads are left like that for the sequels, but as someone who isn't going to read the sequels, they just annoyed me!
It's neither good enough nor bad enough for me to get passionate about it; in other words it's average! The characters are average - not exactly boring, but neither did I really care what was happening to them. The writing is average and is pretty much contrived throughout the novel. I got the feeling that every single ""event"" was written just to give something for Ave Maria to compare herself against, or push against, and not with any care as to whether it fitted in to the story or the flow of the novel. To top it all, Trigiani herself even seems to have become bored with the writing and didn't even manage to conclude some of the storylines she'd started (the issue of Aunt Alice and the inheritance for instance). Maybe the open threads are left like that for the sequels, but as someone who isn't going to read the sequels, they just annoyed me!