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A review by ruthied
One Night, New York by Lara Thompson
2.0
I'm struggling to rate this between 1 and two stars so I put two but it's really 1.5.
This was a VERY slow burn and such a promising story but ended in a huge let down. The time jump was so close together that I felt disoriented between chapters which took me out of the story. The LGBTQ parts felt one dimensional. If you are going to go there then go there but it felt so glossed over that I kept forgetting we were in the 1930s and not 2022. It's like the author was scared to really get into the nitty gritty of being LGBTQ in that time era. Either go for it or don't do it at all. Even the hesitation with Ben in regards to his skin color was pretty superficial. And then the reveal of a baby (that I think her father might have harmed/killed? I couldn't tell it was so badly put together) was completely out of pIace, random, with no relevancy what so ever to anything. I found myself not caring about the characters and nearly stopped at 90% but powered through. I thought this was going to be an interesting historical fiction/thriller/whodunnit type but it was boring, superficial, and a bit of a mess.
This was a VERY slow burn and such a promising story but ended in a huge let down. The time jump was so close together that I felt disoriented between chapters which took me out of the story. The LGBTQ parts felt one dimensional. If you are going to go there then go there but it felt so glossed over that I kept forgetting we were in the 1930s and not 2022. It's like the author was scared to really get into the nitty gritty of being LGBTQ in that time era. Either go for it or don't do it at all. Even the hesitation with Ben in regards to his skin color was pretty superficial. And then the reveal of a baby (that I think her father might have harmed/killed? I couldn't tell it was so badly put together) was completely out of pIace, random, with no relevancy what so ever to anything. I found myself not caring about the characters and nearly stopped at 90% but powered through. I thought this was going to be an interesting historical fiction/thriller/whodunnit type but it was boring, superficial, and a bit of a mess.