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A review by melissasmidnightmusings
In Some Other World, Maybe: A Novel by Shari Goldhagen
1.0
This started out clunky, and repetitive, and slow. It didn't get any better.
The way the characters lives intermix feels like a bad version of six degrees of separation. This book was trying way too hard. There wasn't enough real drama to keep me invested in the story or the characters. I wasn't rooting for anyone, or all that curious to find out what would happen to them. The only reason I kept reading it was to see if it redeemed itself.
It didn't.
This feels like a random mashup of characters, whose connection/interweaving is supposed to be some comic book that's turned into a TV show, and the people that surround all of that. Also there are odd interjections of what I'd call modern history events, like the Bush V. Gore presidential election, a recounting of September 11, 2001, and the emergency landing on the Hudson river.
These events are thrown in for some odd reason but have no actual meaningful bearing on the story, except for one reference to the Bush V Gore election near the end of the book, but even that is weak as a connector at best.
I can't understand how Adam seems like a nice kid, but then almost drowns his friend as a teenager. He also grows up and becomes a complete dick, but he has these nice moments. I can't tell if he's a narcissist, or just unbalanced.
Honestly, I don't even know what the real point of this story was. Maybe something about choices, some odd Sliding Doors, "consider what would have happened if..." situation?
Whatever it was meant to be, it just doesnt' work.
Probably the most off putting thing? The cover of this book. It makes no sense with the story, and just doesn't go at all.
Definitely do not recommend this.
The way the characters lives intermix feels like a bad version of six degrees of separation. This book was trying way too hard. There wasn't enough real drama to keep me invested in the story or the characters. I wasn't rooting for anyone, or all that curious to find out what would happen to them. The only reason I kept reading it was to see if it redeemed itself.
It didn't.
This feels like a random mashup of characters, whose connection/interweaving is supposed to be some comic book that's turned into a TV show, and the people that surround all of that. Also there are odd interjections of what I'd call modern history events, like the Bush V. Gore presidential election, a recounting of September 11, 2001, and the emergency landing on the Hudson river.
These events are thrown in for some odd reason but have no actual meaningful bearing on the story, except for one reference to the Bush V Gore election near the end of the book, but even that is weak as a connector at best.
I can't understand how Adam seems like a nice kid, but then almost drowns his friend as a teenager. He also grows up and becomes a complete dick, but he has these nice moments. I can't tell if he's a narcissist, or just unbalanced.
Honestly, I don't even know what the real point of this story was. Maybe something about choices, some odd Sliding Doors, "consider what would have happened if..." situation?
Whatever it was meant to be, it just doesnt' work.
Probably the most off putting thing? The cover of this book. It makes no sense with the story, and just doesn't go at all.
Definitely do not recommend this.