annekdotes 's review for:

Evenings and Weekends by Oisín McKenna

4.5

emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

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I flew through this! The prose is crisp and clear, and the many changes in POV kept me on my toes. I’ve seen a lot of reviews mention the lack of communication driving them up the wall - I understand that, but I also thought it was actually quite realistic. People are terrible at communicating and it was refreshing to see all of the assumptions these characters made about their close friends and family, and then getting a paragraph or chapter from those friends’ POV showing us how wrong those assumptions were. Phil was the most interesting and fleshed out character to me, and I particularly enjoyed Maggie as well.