A review by ajparmentier
The Great Good Thing by Roderick Townley

adventurous emotional funny mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

This book is worth a read because it has some interesting ideas. But as the book went on it mostly filled me with existential dread, a feeling of struggling against the inevitable, and eventually of just static existence (and lack of free will). I think I either missed the point, or the ideas just didn't work together to make a statement as well as they could've. I mostly just was waiting to figure out what, exactly, was the great, good thing and for everything to finally be explained. But I was left with more questions than answers. Not necessarily a bad thing, but not what I was looking for from the book. Still! Nothing compares to the excitement of reading that Sylvie was leaning against paragraph 7 on page 3, and counting the paragraphs to realize that was the exact paragraph you were reading!