A review by ellieb_reads
The Eights by Joanna Miller

emotional hopeful slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.0

This was difficult to rate. The first 150 pages were such a snoozefest that I wasn’t finding myself very eager to pick it back up. But I’d heard good things, and ultimately I’m not mad I finished it. The second half is more enjoyable, though I still found the pace a bit slow up until the last quarter of the book. The four main characters were sweet and interesting, and I was invested in their stories and wanted more from them. We spent a lot of the book alluding to their “secrets,” which ended up being entirely predictable. I was eager to read this because the premise had so much potential, but it fell a little flat.