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A review by girlnextshore
The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
3.0
Our local bookclub book this month, which wasn’t exactly what I was expecting. There I was thinking this was just gonna be a light Cape Cod summer family drama, but there’s quite a few CWs and TWs of child abuse and neglect, as well as rape and adultery.
The blurb essentially goes like this: best friends Elle & Jonas finally have sex for the first time in 40 years of touch and go, all while their spouses chatted away inside. Over the next 24 hours, Elle will have to decide between the life she has made and the life she always imagined.
I wish I could say there were redeeming qualities from any of the characters but I finish the book thinking they were all broken in more ways than one.
Also felt it dragged on quite longer than it should.
Hallmark Channel, this was not made for.
The blurb essentially goes like this: best friends Elle & Jonas finally have sex for the first time in 40 years of touch and go, all while their spouses chatted away inside. Over the next 24 hours, Elle will have to decide between the life she has made and the life she always imagined.
I wish I could say there were redeeming qualities from any of the characters but I finish the book thinking they were all broken in more ways than one.
Also felt it dragged on quite longer than it should.
Hallmark Channel, this was not made for.