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PS, I Love You
by Cecelia Ahern
What was this book supposed to be? A romance book between a woman and her memories of her dead husband? Gerry's character wasn't fleshed out enough for that. An exploration of grief? The writing was far too shallow for that. So what's left? A book to make you cry? I never felt connected enough to the supposed emotions in the story to get anywhere close to crying, and I'm usually pretty quick to cry at books.
Holly, as our main character, is uninteresting, unintelligent and plain old irritating. She swings wildly from emotion to emotion, which is realistic of grief. However, I never felt the emotions first hand, and just felt like I was being informed of them passively. She changes her mind based on the latest pep talk she's received from a nearby friend or family member, so within 3 paragraphs she's had an entire change of personality, it seems.
The writing is simplistic, and the dialogue is corny, awkward and stilted. The settings are dull, perhaps from lack of any description. The main interest I held throughout the book was in the side characters, and their plots were predictable.
There's just no subtlety to the book. Emotions are stated plainly. Character's motivations are obvious. Holly makes an incredibly unrealistic amount of progress through her grief just for the sake of letting the reader feel closure and like the entire reading experience wasn't a pointless waste of time.
Holly, as our main character, is uninteresting, unintelligent and plain old irritating. She swings wildly from emotion to emotion, which is realistic of grief. However, I never felt the emotions first hand, and just felt like I was being informed of them passively. She changes her mind based on the latest pep talk she's received from a nearby friend or family member, so within 3 paragraphs she's had an entire change of personality, it seems.
The writing is simplistic, and the dialogue is corny, awkward and stilted. The settings are dull, perhaps from lack of any description. The main interest I held throughout the book was in the side characters, and their plots were predictable.
There's just no subtlety to the book. Emotions are stated plainly. Character's motivations are obvious. Holly makes an incredibly unrealistic amount of progress through her grief just for the sake of letting the reader feel closure and like the entire reading experience wasn't a pointless waste of time.