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Soulmates by Jessica Grose
2.0
Soulmates by Jessica Grose is a 2016 William Morrow publication.
This is a quirky novel, not at all like what I was anticipating.
Several years back. Dana’s husband, Ethan, runs off with his yoga instructor, to live in a cult like environment, and make yoga videos for married couples.
But, when Dana discovers the couple has been found dead, she simply must travel to the compound, convinced something about the deaths just doesn’t add up.
I’m not sure what to think of this book. It’s a mystery. It’s a satire. I normally enjoy anything that’s off the beaten path like this, but what makes a satire work, for the most part, is knowing a little bit about the subject at hand and well, I know nothing about New Age, and while I have incorporated yoga into my exercise regimen from time to time, I had no idea yoga enthusiast had their own ‘community’. So, the exaggerations and perhaps ridicule of this lifestyle fell flat for me, as I found it mostly just annoying, and these people were eye rolling ridiculous to me.
Ethan’s narrative got on my nerves after a time, because I can't stand lazy, immature people with no ambition, in the first place, so this segment dragged on far too long, because, of course I knew how things were going to turn out for Ethan in the end.
No one in this book was sane, I did understand the irony of how things turned out in the end, although I had a hard time buying it, and was pretty disappointed in it, but I think this book just flew over my head for the most part.
Thankfully, this is a short book and didn’t require a large investment of my time. But, overall, I applaud the imaginative plot, if nothing else, but this was not my kind of book.
2 stars
This is a quirky novel, not at all like what I was anticipating.
Several years back. Dana’s husband, Ethan, runs off with his yoga instructor, to live in a cult like environment, and make yoga videos for married couples.
But, when Dana discovers the couple has been found dead, she simply must travel to the compound, convinced something about the deaths just doesn’t add up.
I’m not sure what to think of this book. It’s a mystery. It’s a satire. I normally enjoy anything that’s off the beaten path like this, but what makes a satire work, for the most part, is knowing a little bit about the subject at hand and well, I know nothing about New Age, and while I have incorporated yoga into my exercise regimen from time to time, I had no idea yoga enthusiast had their own ‘community’. So, the exaggerations and perhaps ridicule of this lifestyle fell flat for me, as I found it mostly just annoying, and these people were eye rolling ridiculous to me.
Ethan’s narrative got on my nerves after a time, because I can't stand lazy, immature people with no ambition, in the first place, so this segment dragged on far too long, because, of course I knew how things were going to turn out for Ethan in the end.
No one in this book was sane, I did understand the irony of how things turned out in the end, although I had a hard time buying it, and was pretty disappointed in it, but I think this book just flew over my head for the most part.
Thankfully, this is a short book and didn’t require a large investment of my time. But, overall, I applaud the imaginative plot, if nothing else, but this was not my kind of book.
2 stars