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lindamarieaustin110159 's review for:
The Celebrants
by Steven Rowley
I picked this out because I’d seen a lot of buzz about it and I enjoyed Lily and the Octopus (I gave it 5*). But after I started reading, I found it to be not really my thing, and sincerely toyed with the idea of not finishing it. I stuck with it just to see if it would improve. It did not.
While it definitely a unique concept to have a funeral for a person while they are still alive so that they can see how much they are loved and appreciated, I could not relate to any of these characters. I found myself completely uninterested in them and baffled by their behavior. Honestly, almost fifty-year-olds smoking pot and casually tripping on mushrooms is pathetic.
The relationships between the members of this group are weird. Who has had sex with who? I lost track. It’s hard to believe they go for long periods of time without seeing one another and then get together and interact like they never left college.
I don’t understand why Rowley would name two characters Jordy and Jordan. I found it confusing initially, figured it out and then found it just annoying.
Naomi Ito, Craig Scheffler, Marielle Howland, Jordy Tosic, Jordon Varges and Alec Swigert met at age nineteen when then they all transferred to Berkeley College as sophomores, members of the graduating class of 1995. The group found themselves being housed in the same dorm. Sometime after Alec dies before graduation the friends decide that it would be a good idea to celebrate their funerals before they die. They gather every few years and pay tribute to one of their own.
While it definitely a unique concept to have a funeral for a person while they are still alive so that they can see how much they are loved and appreciated, I could not relate to any of these characters. I found myself completely uninterested in them and baffled by their behavior. Honestly, almost fifty-year-olds smoking pot and casually tripping on mushrooms is pathetic.
The relationships between the members of this group are weird. Who has had sex with who? I lost track. It’s hard to believe they go for long periods of time without seeing one another and then get together and interact like they never left college.
I don’t understand why Rowley would name two characters Jordy and Jordan. I found it confusing initially, figured it out and then found it just annoying.
Naomi Ito, Craig Scheffler, Marielle Howland, Jordy Tosic, Jordon Varges and Alec Swigert met at age nineteen when then they all transferred to Berkeley College as sophomores, members of the graduating class of 1995. The group found themselves being housed in the same dorm. Sometime after Alec dies before graduation the friends decide that it would be a good idea to celebrate their funerals before they die. They gather every few years and pay tribute to one of their own.