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Als ich erwachte by Cynthia Swanson
2.0
To be very honest, the gorgeous german cover design and the very interesting sound of the blurb sold the book to me. I expected to love this book but I just didn't.
Katharyn "Kitty" Miller is in her thirties, independent, unmarried and co-owns a bookstore with her best friend Frieda Green in Denver in the early 1960s. Suddenly Kitty begins to dream about an alternate path her life may have taken. When awake, she's the bookshop owner with her best friend. She has a cat and loves her parents and is helping the neighbor boy learn to read. She cares primarily about the future of the bookstore, which no longer works so well. When Kitty sleeps, she is Katharyn who is a mother of triplets, one child with autism, married to Lars Andersson, the most wonderful man she could have ever imagined. Kitty begins to question the path her life has taken at the same time that the division between her two lives begin to blur and merge.
Trying to figure out which life is real makes this a real page-turner and keeps you interested throughout. Altough I just didn’t click with Kitty/Katharyn and I could not empathize with her at all. The plot line simply bored the death out of me. In between these boring lives, the book is filled with boring descriptions and histories. I didn't care about the characters or the story enough. I finished this story by skipping paragraphs because I wanted to find out what was going on in the end. A point in the book's favor: I did find the ending unpredictable. It seems most readers were predicting it all along. For me, however, I was surprised.
This book had so much potential to be a brilliant book, unfortunately it didn't work for me. I'm unendlessly disappointed. I expected so much more of this book.
Katharyn "Kitty" Miller is in her thirties, independent, unmarried and co-owns a bookstore with her best friend Frieda Green in Denver in the early 1960s. Suddenly Kitty begins to dream about an alternate path her life may have taken. When awake, she's the bookshop owner with her best friend. She has a cat and loves her parents and is helping the neighbor boy learn to read. She cares primarily about the future of the bookstore, which no longer works so well. When Kitty sleeps, she is Katharyn who is a mother of triplets, one child with autism, married to Lars Andersson, the most wonderful man she could have ever imagined. Kitty begins to question the path her life has taken at the same time that the division between her two lives begin to blur and merge.
Trying to figure out which life is real makes this a real page-turner and keeps you interested throughout. Altough I just didn’t click with Kitty/Katharyn and I could not empathize with her at all. The plot line simply bored the death out of me. In between these boring lives, the book is filled with boring descriptions and histories. I didn't care about the characters or the story enough. I finished this story by skipping paragraphs because I wanted to find out what was going on in the end. A point in the book's favor: I did find the ending unpredictable. It seems most readers were predicting it all along. For me, however, I was surprised.
This book had so much potential to be a brilliant book, unfortunately it didn't work for me. I'm unendlessly disappointed. I expected so much more of this book.