highvoltagegrrl 's review for:

The Year We Left Home by Jean Thompson

3.0

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While this book had the ability to pull at my heartstrings at times, on the whole it was fairly mundane. I had to keep coming back to this book because many of the chapters literally put me to sleep, even though the writing was good, the subject was just a snooze at times. The progression of the family over the span of 30+ years was very well done, however it also made me feel disconnected every time the narration switched to a different family member. There were times when I had to jump back and read the previous parts of the story and spent way too much time trying to figure out what had happened since the last time they were the narrator. People that have family history like this would probably have enjoyed the story much more, at times it felt like I just didn’t get it.

Reviewed by Gabi for Book Sake.