A review by paytonr
The Help by Kathryn Stockett

3.0

This was a fun read, it may be a little overdone now that it's been produced into a movie that seemed to lose the grave undertone. While enjoyable, it was written too neatly for a book club. Some of the social issues were forced and completely anachronistic for the period. This book could have resonated more greatly had it focused on one or two main themes and really explicated them. To me, reading this was like eating french fries, pizza, and fried chicken. All simple and delicious in their own right, but thrown together, they make a messy amalgam of a meal.