A review by charity1313
What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty

emotional reflective sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Oh come on!
We spend the entire book bored and annoyed by Old Alice yet hoping she can pull her life back together. Then in the blink of an eye New Alice comes back and everything we have been invested in is flipped? I mean, I hung in there through the boring parts and the annoying parts, the crappy way the book transitions, repeatedly, at the worst possible moments, to other people's letters and journaling. She kinda redeems the book with the epilogue but overall it's a Hallmark story with a weird, awkward ending. Like "plot twist"! Oh no wait, that's an obviously crappy twist, "plot twist again!"
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