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A review by meghan_readsbooks
The Latecomer by Jean Hanff Korelitz
5.0
Thank you to MacMillan audio for this amazing audiobook. The Latecomer audiobook blends one of my favorite literary voices, Jean Hanff Korelitz, with for me the always outstanding voice narration from Julia Whelan. I truly loved this book and how the voice acting added nuances and depth to a complicated character driven family drama.
I find Jean Hanff Korelitz a tremendously intriguing writer! I admire a versatile writer who can engage me, have me thinking and talking about characters and plot development, and who can draw me in to a story so effectively. So I can only rave about The Latecomer, I am sad to have finished it (though highly satisfied with the whole story!).
This is a complicated story, one of triplets who bare little connection or resemblance to each other, who strive to disconnect and yet are forced back together as the plot both takes them away from each other as they enter college/post high school development and then back together in a wonderfully tense, slow simmer crescendo. This book takes it time and asks the reader to savor the details, to get lost in each character, and get into their mindsets and then to feel compelled to want them to avoid the very disaster they seem to be creating for themselves (all the while eagerly waiting for that plot point to be revealed).
Wonderful narration with a thoughtfully engaging and thought provoking character/family drama. I will be recommending this one often!
I find Jean Hanff Korelitz a tremendously intriguing writer! I admire a versatile writer who can engage me, have me thinking and talking about characters and plot development, and who can draw me in to a story so effectively. So I can only rave about The Latecomer, I am sad to have finished it (though highly satisfied with the whole story!).
This is a complicated story, one of triplets who bare little connection or resemblance to each other, who strive to disconnect and yet are forced back together as the plot both takes them away from each other as they enter college/post high school development and then back together in a wonderfully tense, slow simmer crescendo. This book takes it time and asks the reader to savor the details, to get lost in each character, and get into their mindsets and then to feel compelled to want them to avoid the very disaster they seem to be creating for themselves (all the while eagerly waiting for that plot point to be revealed).
Wonderful narration with a thoughtfully engaging and thought provoking character/family drama. I will be recommending this one often!