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A review by saarahnina
A Year and a Day by Isabelle Broom
Did not finish book.
Please note: I have not finished this book. Nor do I intend to finish it.
It's quite out of character for me to choose to opt out on a book, I mean I don't think it's sinful (it's the right of any reader), but I do hate leaving a story incomplete. I need to know its end, even when I don't particularly want it to end, else it would just plague my thoughts.
That's where this book is different. I think it had a lot to do with there being three couples: Hope and Charlie, Ollie and Megan, Sophie and Robin. Usually I can handle there being a handful of (well, in this case: three) stories at one time. But, for me, with this book, it was exceptionally difficult. Perhaps because I only really cared about one couple: Sophie and Robin. So, when the other characters came into the story, I didn't really care much. I've been procrastinating so much on reading this book, which is a huge rarity for me: books are supposed to be my tool for procrastination.
Usually this would be no problem, reading about that one couple that I cared about would sustain me. But, when they actually link in together, actually speak to one another, I really couldn't stand it. I quite like it when the other couple is in a different time, or they're living parallel lives, or involved in a huge event, without ever having met one another. Or when it all adds up at the end, and they all come together. In other words, this wasn't the book for me. This, I found was also the case in regard to the actual writing. The characters were significantly oversimplified, the writing was riddled with phrases that have come to be overused. For example, a character reflecting on how each snowflake is unique. This, is only really memorable because it came across as though the character had microscopic vision and was able to distinguish between snowflakes.
I will though, be giving other books by this author a chance.
I received this book through NetGalley.
It's quite out of character for me to choose to opt out on a book, I mean I don't think it's sinful (it's the right of any reader), but I do hate leaving a story incomplete. I need to know its end, even when I don't particularly want it to end, else it would just plague my thoughts.
That's where this book is different. I think it had a lot to do with there being three couples: Hope and Charlie, Ollie and Megan, Sophie and Robin. Usually I can handle there being a handful of (well, in this case: three) stories at one time. But, for me, with this book, it was exceptionally difficult. Perhaps because I only really cared about one couple: Sophie and Robin. So, when the other characters came into the story, I didn't really care much. I've been procrastinating so much on reading this book, which is a huge rarity for me: books are supposed to be my tool for procrastination.
Usually this would be no problem, reading about that one couple that I cared about would sustain me. But, when they actually link in together, actually speak to one another, I really couldn't stand it. I quite like it when the other couple is in a different time, or they're living parallel lives, or involved in a huge event, without ever having met one another. Or when it all adds up at the end, and they all come together. In other words, this wasn't the book for me. This, I found was also the case in regard to the actual writing. The characters were significantly oversimplified, the writing was riddled with phrases that have come to be overused. For example, a character reflecting on how each snowflake is unique. This, is only really memorable because it came across as though the character had microscopic vision and was able to distinguish between snowflakes.
I will though, be giving other books by this author a chance.
I received this book through NetGalley.