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A review by bluecaty
Rootbound by Tarah DeWitt
3.0
As much as I enjoyed The Co-op and Funny Feelings, this book felt flat on so many levels that I wonder if it's written by the same author. It felt like she changed editors or forgo the editing altogether. Cut in places where I'd wish I read more. Jarring jumps from one scene to another to show time passing. And then where the smoother transitions existed, they were mostly at the end of the day, as in the characters go to sleep. What? That's high-school-level writing.
The world-building was clunky and boring. For someone like me, who has little to no knowledge of how ranches work, many references went over my head. I kept reading until the end, hoping it would get interesting but it failed to hook me. I refuse to believe this author doesn't know how to develop a character, especially given the other two books she has written.
I give it 3 stars for the bits of realism in it, and for not shying away from showing a faulty heroine and a messy family. The love story was underdeveloped, but it landed well anyway. I just wished that the story would have been more fleshed out and the final manuscript more polished before seeing the light of printing.
The world-building was clunky and boring. For someone like me, who has little to no knowledge of how ranches work, many references went over my head. I kept reading until the end, hoping it would get interesting but it failed to hook me. I refuse to believe this author doesn't know how to develop a character, especially given the other two books she has written.
I give it 3 stars for the bits of realism in it, and for not shying away from showing a faulty heroine and a messy family. The love story was underdeveloped, but it landed well anyway. I just wished that the story would have been more fleshed out and the final manuscript more polished before seeing the light of printing.