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jamders 's review for:
Apple in the Middle
by Dawn Quigley
I really wanted to love this book. I’m reading more native stories, but this protagonist wasn’t my favorite, the tension in the story needed lots of work, and the editing (or lack thereof) was really distracting. So many quotations needed to be close.
The timeline drove me bananas: a story set in this early 2000s with a mom born in 1968, graduated from high school in 1988 with Leif Garrett posters everywhere? The grandfather who fought in WWII but is said to be in his 60s? The dad who stopped drinking when the protagonist was a year and a half and somehow the character knew about this but also the dad was drinking well into her childhood?
The external conflict didn’t really need to exist because the protagonist was coming of age and had so much internal conflict. The pacing was super rushed. A character really unnecessarily died. A lot of plot points were unnecessary or didn’t add up.
The timeline drove me bananas: a story set in this early 2000s with a mom born in 1968, graduated from high school in 1988 with Leif Garrett posters everywhere? The grandfather who fought in WWII but is said to be in his 60s? The dad who stopped drinking when the protagonist was a year and a half and somehow the character knew about this but also the dad was drinking well into her childhood?
The external conflict didn’t really need to exist because the protagonist was coming of age and had so much internal conflict. The pacing was super rushed. A character really unnecessarily died. A lot of plot points were unnecessary or didn’t add up.