A review by amandagstevens
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

Did not finish book. Stopped at 9%.

I have this thing about first person narratives. The voice has to be standout, or I can't get into the book (when I possibly could have, were the story told in third person). The voice of this narrator isn't convincingly male; plus it seems to want to "sound literary," but in the first ten percent of the book I didn't encounter a single original wordsmithing phrase. So I watched the movie, figuring if I found myself investing in the characters (despite Pattinson) I would give the book another try. Nope. Nothing about this story makes me want to keep reading.