A review by banrions
The Road to Madison by Elle Spencer

3.0

This one was fine. Perfectly enjoyable, but not one of my favorites by Elle Spencer. I’m totally down with angst but this one def had it in spades and if that’s not your thing, this one might not be for you. I both sort of liked and sort of found it annoying to get so many different secondary povs and flashbacks. I think I might have enjoyed it a little more if it was just mostly Anna and Madison, but it was also nice to see some other perspectives. It’s a change up and it was interesting. Sometimes this veered a little more to melodrama than general drama/angst, but that can also be fun when that’s what you’re in the mood for. I think maybe a tiny bit of the disconnect for me is that we didn’t really get to see a lot of Anna and Madison In Love before everything goes to shit, and the bits we get in flashbacks, while cute, didn’t quite lend itself (for me personally) to buy into this Epic Love Story quite as much as the narrative (and even the narrative in 30 Dates in 30 Days, which IS my fav Elle Spencer book) seems to think it is. I def enjoyed it, and Lori Prince was as fantastic as always and her Anna voice was one of my favs, but this probably won’t be a re-listen one for me.