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readwithkatie 's review for:
Grown-Up Pose
by Sonya Lalli
Overall reaction: Promising presence, less than stellar execution.
While this book isn't necessarily bad, the story does have a lack of focus. There are so many side characters that don't get enough development and end up coming off one dimensional; the reader is told how many of these characters are supposed to be, but there's a lack of on page support of this characterization (the best example being Anu's parents, who never come off as pressuring as they're made out to be). The plot also has a lack of direction with a number of semi-related side plots, making the ending unsatisfactory as the story lines were never really fleshed out. The book should've either been 100 pages longer to give everything the development it deserved, or cut some of the extraneous story lines and characters (specifically Imogen and the yoga studio plot line).
I think my biggest issue, however, is that the marketing of this book is very misleading. I went into this thinking it'd be about a woman purchasing and running a yoga studio when in actuality you could've removed that plot line and it hardly would've affected the main plot of the book. It's much more accurate to say it follows a woman trying to find herself and navigating being single for the first time as an adult.
While this book isn't necessarily bad, the story does have a lack of focus. There are so many side characters that don't get enough development and end up coming off one dimensional; the reader is told how many of these characters are supposed to be, but there's a lack of on page support of this characterization (the best example being Anu's parents, who never come off as pressuring as they're made out to be). The plot also has a lack of direction with a number of semi-related side plots, making the ending unsatisfactory as the story lines were never really fleshed out. The book should've either been 100 pages longer to give everything the development it deserved, or cut some of the extraneous story lines and characters (specifically Imogen and the yoga studio plot line).
I think my biggest issue, however, is that the marketing of this book is very misleading. I went into this thinking it'd be about a woman purchasing and running a yoga studio when in actuality you could've removed that plot line and it hardly would've affected the main plot of the book. It's much more accurate to say it follows a woman trying to find herself and navigating being single for the first time as an adult.