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melissarochelle 's review for:
Shotgun Lovesongs
by Nickolas Butler
I wanted this to be something it wasn't. When I read a description that includes small-towns and long-lasting friendships, I want small-towns and friendships and some conflict...real conflict.
In this book you have several different perspectives that all sounded the same. A lot of the characters sounded the same and I'm not interested in the problems of people that don't really have problems. The characters just weren't that interesting and the drama wasn't all that dramatic. I ended up skipping huge sections of one of the many times a character went off on some barely-connected-to-THIS-story tangent.
But the cover is really good...too bad it doesn't really tell me anything about this book.
(I discovered the Bon Iver connection after finishing the book...knowing it beforehand wouldn't have made much of a difference: http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/industry-deals/article/54049-buzzed-about-novel-with-tie-to-bon-iver-sells-in-major-deal.html)
In this book you have several different perspectives that all sounded the same. A lot of the characters sounded the same and I'm not interested in the problems of people that don't really have problems. The characters just weren't that interesting and the drama wasn't all that dramatic. I ended up skipping huge sections of one of the many times a character went off on some barely-connected-to-THIS-story tangent.
But the cover is really good...too bad it doesn't really tell me anything about this book.
(I discovered the Bon Iver connection after finishing the book...knowing it beforehand wouldn't have made much of a difference: http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/industry-deals/article/54049-buzzed-about-novel-with-tie-to-bon-iver-sells-in-major-deal.html)