margaret_adams 's review for:

Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan

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Oh man. I ignored this book for a long time because the cover makes it look like a not-my-jam kind of book: lighthearted sexy wealthy summer something. But it got recommended to me, so I finally picked it up, and it’s actually a multigenerational book about women in toxic family relationships who are currently either old or not conventionally attractive and who are mostly preoccupied with catholicism, gender roles, and dying in a fire (read: much more my jam). This was good. I’m laughing a little right now because I’m reading all of the GR reviews from people who were looking for what the cover advertises and were surprised (but not in the good way that I was) by what they got. No shade to the cover design itself, just to the cover design/content mismatch.