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benmsmith 's review for:
Give Me Your Hand
by Megan Abbott
This is a 3.5 rather than a 4, and it was almost a 3/5, but I'll get to that.
This book does a great job as a character study of 2 characters over the course of multiple moments in their lives. Something happens about a third of the way through that in the moment I read it, felt so ridiculous (even though it was fully set up earlier in the book) that I almost put it down and returned the digital copy to my library immediately, it pulled me out of the plot that much.
And yet, I continued. Partially to confirm my hunches about what the secret that connects the two main characters was (I was right) and something I was sure that would happen before everything tied itself up (again, I was right). But as I kept reading, the book stuck to the level of crazy it had raised itself to, stuck with it, and nailed the landing. This one kept me turning the page after my train ride home so I could see exactly how things ended. I'm glad I stuck with it, even though it felt like this went to crazytown, because it stuck the landing.
This book does a great job as a character study of 2 characters over the course of multiple moments in their lives. Something happens about a third of the way through that in the moment I read it, felt so ridiculous (even though it was fully set up earlier in the book) that I almost put it down and returned the digital copy to my library immediately, it pulled me out of the plot that much.
And yet, I continued. Partially to confirm my hunches about what the secret that connects the two main characters was (I was right) and something I was sure that would happen before everything tied itself up (again, I was right). But as I kept reading, the book stuck to the level of crazy it had raised itself to, stuck with it, and nailed the landing. This one kept me turning the page after my train ride home so I could see exactly how things ended. I'm glad I stuck with it, even though it felt like this went to crazytown, because it stuck the landing.