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A review by fantastacy
The Whole Thing Together by Ann Brashares
3.0
Sorry if this review is rambling and a bit disjointed... I don't want to give away spoilers.
I wanted to love this book, but it let me down. I thought the synopsis was so interesting: a family that was two halves of one whole with children that had never met. I was really looking forward to learning bout the journeys of Ray and Sasha and their family, but the book seemed to start with one personality/mood and end with another. When the older sisters were introduced, it was hard to keep track of them and they seemed similar. Then, as the story went along, the reader was expected to understand that so and so was always a certain way, but without any history to base that on- as if the author was really trying to make one-dimensional characters looks deep. It was told in third person, but the narrator was almost too omniscient, describing even secondary characters' innermost feelings in rapid fire to the next. The climax of the story seemed like something the author came up with halfway through writing, as though she didn't have a plan from the beginning. The book really didn't end, so you still don't know the answers to the questions you might have in the beginning of the book. It felt like I picked up one book and someone switched them while I was reading. Pretty disappointing.
I wanted to love this book, but it let me down. I thought the synopsis was so interesting: a family that was two halves of one whole with children that had never met. I was really looking forward to learning bout the journeys of Ray and Sasha and their family, but the book seemed to start with one personality/mood and end with another. When the older sisters were introduced, it was hard to keep track of them and they seemed similar. Then, as the story went along, the reader was expected to understand that so and so was always a certain way, but without any history to base that on- as if the author was really trying to make one-dimensional characters looks deep. It was told in third person, but the narrator was almost too omniscient, describing even secondary characters' innermost feelings in rapid fire to the next. The climax of the story seemed like something the author came up with halfway through writing, as though she didn't have a plan from the beginning. The book really didn't end, so you still don't know the answers to the questions you might have in the beginning of the book. It felt like I picked up one book and someone switched them while I was reading. Pretty disappointing.