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A review by tobyyy
In the Company of Others by Jan Karon
3.0
Definitely an emotional overload of a story. This is not your typical happy-go-lucky (with a sprinkling of tears) Mitford novel. This one takes place in Ireland, and the tone of the book feels like it’s many shades of gray and black instead of pastels and rainbow colors. Much darker, much more pain and anger and sorrow were expressed in these pages.
I initially rated it a 2/5 stars but that’s not really fair. The writing was good as always, and just because it was more grim than I wanted right now with all the world events going on (plus personal stuff), doesn’t mean it wasn’t a good book.
And I could complain about how Father Tim always solves everything and the books have unrealistically happy and neat endings... but... isn’t that WHY I read them? Or mostly why?
I did miss Mitford but in reading this book, you can tell that Ireland has a special place for Karon.
Also — the diary entries were fascinating but just make another book already! I got so fed up with that storyline alternating with the modern one plus all of the “when it rains it pours” events occurring in the modern timeline too. Felt like enough to make this into two books.
I initially rated it a 2/5 stars but that’s not really fair. The writing was good as always, and just because it was more grim than I wanted right now with all the world events going on (plus personal stuff), doesn’t mean it wasn’t a good book.
And I could complain about how Father Tim always solves everything and the books have unrealistically happy and neat endings... but... isn’t that WHY I read them? Or mostly why?
I did miss Mitford but in reading this book, you can tell that Ireland has a special place for Karon.
Also — the diary entries were fascinating but just make another book already! I got so fed up with that storyline alternating with the modern one plus all of the “when it rains it pours” events occurring in the modern timeline too. Felt like enough to make this into two books.