A review by sparkandfade
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender

mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

Interesting ideas presented, but took me a while to finish because the pace was quite slow in a way that did not hold my attention, personally. Of note is that there is no use of quotation marks, which threw me off in my reading at the beginning, but I got used to it quickly and found that it contributed to the strong introspective mood of the book. One thing that did take me out of my reading was some of the sentence fragments. The ending did not quite make sense to me; the last sentence left me feeling dissatisfied and disgruntled.