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bdowning81 's review for:
The Casquette Girls
by Alys Arden
This was a compelling read - I kept finding myself reading well past when I should have been going to bed. The descriptions of post-Storm life in the French Quarter were so vivid and immersive, it was really one of the best portrayals of hurricane recovery I've read, and the tableau of characters living in the Quarter were so well developed that it felt true that the main character would feel like coming home to family.
Adele, though... there's an awful lot of Bella Swan/Mary Sue syndrome going on here. Every boy is falling all over himself for her and her biggest problem in the world (a world in which, I might add, her city has no power, no grocery deliveries, no gas, no schools, few living *people*, and there's a gaping hole in her house) is deciding which one to choose. When the story gets away from that, it's great. When it dwells on that, it drags. A lot.
Adele, though... there's an awful lot of Bella Swan/Mary Sue syndrome going on here. Every boy is falling all over himself for her and her biggest problem in the world (a world in which, I might add, her city has no power, no grocery deliveries, no gas, no schools, few living *people*, and there's a gaping hole in her house) is deciding which one to choose. When the story gets away from that, it's great. When it dwells on that, it drags. A lot.