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jfortney23 's review for:
The Lions of Fifth Avenue
by Fiona Davis
There were so many things happening in this book that frustrated me. Mostly the idea that this was supposed to be making a point about female empowerment, but then the mom dares reach outside her bounds and her family falls apart. And stays fallen apart.
I was annoyed that she seemed happy with her husband, and thensuddenly she was cheating on him and she seemed to suddenly decide her husband was a controlling bully. It's fine if you want to make a point about the subtlety of power dynamics, but it didn't work for me.
Ultimately I feel like the plot and characters were mismatched.
Also, WTF with arguing for Robin to go to prison while Harry was allowed the opportunity to redeem himself as he grew up? There was some line about Robin not being remorseful enough, basically, and she gets cast as an unredeemable bad guy.
Probably the only thing I liked were the setting and the dynamic between Sadie and Nick.
Even though this was entertaining enough to keep me reading, I was really only compelled to read out of a hope that this disjointed book would somehow redeem itself. I skimmed the last few pages when I realized that redemption wasn't coming.
I was annoyed that she seemed happy with her husband, and then
Ultimately I feel like the plot and characters were mismatched.
Probably the only thing I liked were the setting and the dynamic between Sadie and Nick.
Even though this was entertaining enough to keep me reading, I was really only compelled to read out of a hope that this disjointed book would somehow redeem itself. I skimmed the last few pages when I realized that redemption wasn't coming.