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A review by marci_travels
All Adults Here by Emma Straub
3.0
This book caught my attention because of the back jacket copy with the line, " who gets to decide, so many years later, which were the mistakes that mattered?"
The book starts out well although there are a few too many asides such as, "So much of becoming an adult was distancing yourself from your childhood experiences and pretending they didn't matter, then growing to realize they were all that mattered and composed 90 percent of your entire being."
And then we hit the soggy middle. The story goes from a solid rumination of "Life is short, seize the moment, to let's just toss every hot button topic in the blender and call it today's blended family. By the time, I hit the 3/4 mark, I felt that Straub was writing to some publisher's checklist of "this is what makes a bestseller today."
The checklist didn't work for me.
The book starts out well although there are a few too many asides such as, "So much of becoming an adult was distancing yourself from your childhood experiences and pretending they didn't matter, then growing to realize they were all that mattered and composed 90 percent of your entire being."
And then we hit the soggy middle. The story goes from a solid rumination of "Life is short, seize the moment, to let's just toss every hot button topic in the blender and call it today's blended family. By the time, I hit the 3/4 mark, I felt that Straub was writing to some publisher's checklist of "this is what makes a bestseller today."
The checklist didn't work for me.