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A review by ja3m3
Carry the One by Carol Anshaw
3.0
After a late wedding reception in rural Wisconsin two siblings and four friends are driving back to Chicago stoned and drunk when they hit and kill a ten-year-old girl. The rest of the book focuses on how the death of the little girl impacts the direction of their lives.
The premise of this book was very promising and one cannot deny that Anshaw has an amazing gift to twist words to create immense imagery and feeling: “The social road ahead looked like a bleak highway, post-apocalyptic overblown with dust, gray and lifeless except for mutants popping up here and there.” - pretty much how I would describe the dating scene. My problem with the storyline was that the characters were unbelievable and were not likeable. I don’t expect to like all the characters in a book that would be boring, but at least give me a reason to continue reading the book. I kept asking myself as I read the book, “Who are these people. Do they really exist?” There was only one person the person who was driving the car that killed the girl that I felt had changed and I couldn’t decide if she had changed because of the girl’s death or her time in prison. The only change in the other characters was that the death just magnified how selfish and flawed they were which became very tiresome to read.
The premise of this book was very promising and one cannot deny that Anshaw has an amazing gift to twist words to create immense imagery and feeling: “The social road ahead looked like a bleak highway, post-apocalyptic overblown with dust, gray and lifeless except for mutants popping up here and there.” - pretty much how I would describe the dating scene. My problem with the storyline was that the characters were unbelievable and were not likeable. I don’t expect to like all the characters in a book that would be boring, but at least give me a reason to continue reading the book. I kept asking myself as I read the book, “Who are these people. Do they really exist?” There was only one person the person who was driving the car that killed the girl that I felt had changed and I couldn’t decide if she had changed because of the girl’s death or her time in prison. The only change in the other characters was that the death just magnified how selfish and flawed they were which became very tiresome to read.