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knenglish24 's review for:
Deliver Me
by Elle Nash
maybe I’m extra critical because it is set in Missouri and I didn’t think she got the specific Ozark small town hopelessness and poverty correct, or it was the way that this thin author wrote about her fat main character, or it was the trauma and vulgarity for trauma and vulgarity’s sake, OR the half baked obsession with Daisy’s high school friend/crush but this just really didn’t do it for me. The entire crux of the whole thing being summed up in a 2 page fake news article about Dee Dee cutting out Sloane’s baby and not even saying anything about her being in Jail or what happened after at the end felt like a cop-out, and I’m fine with novels having unlikeable main characters if it’s done correctly, but for me this wasn’t it. I painfully understood the relationship between Daisy and her mother where it felt like she was more willing to mother anybody but her own child and wish that was explored more deeply. The author’s writing ability (style, word choice, painting a picture) is about the only thing I actually enjoyed, and the reason why this is three stars instead of two. But plot and development is lacking. I wouldn’t recommend this book to anybody.
Merged review:
maybe I’m extra critical because it is set in Missouri and I didn’t think she got the specific Ozark small town hopelessness and poverty correct, or it was the way that this thin author wrote about her fat main character, or it was the trauma and vulgarity for trauma and vulgarity’s sake, OR the half baked obsession with Daisy’s high school friend/crush but this just really didn’t do it for me. The entire crux of the whole thing being summed up in a 2 page fake news article about Dee Dee cutting out Sloane’s baby and not even saying anything about her being in Jail or what happened after at the end felt like a cop-out, and I’m fine with novels having unlikeable main characters if it’s done correctly, but for me this wasn’t it. I painfully understood the relationship between Daisy and her mother where it felt like she was more willing to mother anybody but her own child and wish that was explored more deeply. The author’s writing ability (style, word choice, painting a picture) is about the only thing I actually enjoyed, and the reason why this is three stars instead of two. But plot and development is lacking. I wouldn’t recommend this book to anybody.
Merged review:
maybe I’m extra critical because it is set in Missouri and I didn’t think she got the specific Ozark small town hopelessness and poverty correct, or it was the way that this thin author wrote about her fat main character, or it was the trauma and vulgarity for trauma and vulgarity’s sake, OR the half baked obsession with Daisy’s high school friend/crush but this just really didn’t do it for me. The entire crux of the whole thing being summed up in a 2 page fake news article about Dee Dee cutting out Sloane’s baby and not even saying anything about her being in Jail or what happened after at the end felt like a cop-out, and I’m fine with novels having unlikeable main characters if it’s done correctly, but for me this wasn’t it. I painfully understood the relationship between Daisy and her mother where it felt like she was more willing to mother anybody but her own child and wish that was explored more deeply. The author’s writing ability (style, word choice, painting a picture) is about the only thing I actually enjoyed, and the reason why this is three stars instead of two. But plot and development is lacking. I wouldn’t recommend this book to anybody.