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She's Up to No Good
by Sara Goodman Confino
emotional
funny
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
She's Up to No Good by Sara Goodman Confino
Narrated by Holly Linneman
By finishing this audiobook, the only book by this author that I have left is her upcoming ARC, "Good Grief", which I plan to read next week. I love how there will be little connections between characters in her various books. You can read each book as a standalone because that is the way they are written, but characters from one book to another can be related and you will sometimes find out how characters you've already met in another book are doing at the time of the present book. In this case, Grandmother Evelyn does a good job of popping up in more than one book. And if you ever meet Grandmother Evelyn, you will probably have a hard time forgetting her.
Evelyn's granddaughter, Jenna, is going through a very difficult time and has been spending the last six months dug down in her parents home except when she's at her teaching job. Jenna's parents are ready for her to move out and on in life so there may be a little or lot of collusion going on that leads to Jenna accompanying Evelyn on a road trip to Evelyn's seaside Massachusetts hometown. Evelyn is something else, she uses her "old granny who can't think straight" demeanor to great success although Jenna eventually figures out that granny is a stinker who does whatever she wants in order to get whatever she wants. What Jenna used to think was Evelyn getting old and not quite right anymore is really Evelyn pulling the wool over everyone's eyes when it suits her to do so.
And, it's impossible to get anything out of Evelyn until she's ready to tell what she knows. This trip will be one long story from Evelyn and it's quite the story. For as funny as this story is, it also made me sad. This is a star crossed tale in more ways than one and it's sad that lessons aren't learned from one generation to another, because, if they had been learned, the next generation might not have suffered so much.
I really like Jenna, can understand why she is hurting so much and I can understand why she isn't willing to let herself feel emotions that are right there under the surface. Most of the people in this story are good people but it's the adults who seem to make the biggest mistakes at times. If only each person who has been hurt in the past would be more open, maybe there would be better understanding from generation to generation. This is a family who has had broken hearts along the way but hopefully the youngest generation might finally be allowed to make choices of their own. I was able to read this book with DeAnn so check out her review for more about this story.
This is a KU audiobook
Narrated by Holly Linneman
By finishing this audiobook, the only book by this author that I have left is her upcoming ARC, "Good Grief", which I plan to read next week. I love how there will be little connections between characters in her various books. You can read each book as a standalone because that is the way they are written, but characters from one book to another can be related and you will sometimes find out how characters you've already met in another book are doing at the time of the present book. In this case, Grandmother Evelyn does a good job of popping up in more than one book. And if you ever meet Grandmother Evelyn, you will probably have a hard time forgetting her.
Evelyn's granddaughter, Jenna, is going through a very difficult time and has been spending the last six months dug down in her parents home except when she's at her teaching job. Jenna's parents are ready for her to move out and on in life so there may be a little or lot of collusion going on that leads to Jenna accompanying Evelyn on a road trip to Evelyn's seaside Massachusetts hometown. Evelyn is something else, she uses her "old granny who can't think straight" demeanor to great success although Jenna eventually figures out that granny is a stinker who does whatever she wants in order to get whatever she wants. What Jenna used to think was Evelyn getting old and not quite right anymore is really Evelyn pulling the wool over everyone's eyes when it suits her to do so.
And, it's impossible to get anything out of Evelyn until she's ready to tell what she knows. This trip will be one long story from Evelyn and it's quite the story. For as funny as this story is, it also made me sad. This is a star crossed tale in more ways than one and it's sad that lessons aren't learned from one generation to another, because, if they had been learned, the next generation might not have suffered so much.
I really like Jenna, can understand why she is hurting so much and I can understand why she isn't willing to let herself feel emotions that are right there under the surface. Most of the people in this story are good people but it's the adults who seem to make the biggest mistakes at times. If only each person who has been hurt in the past would be more open, maybe there would be better understanding from generation to generation. This is a family who has had broken hearts along the way but hopefully the youngest generation might finally be allowed to make choices of their own. I was able to read this book with DeAnn so check out her review for more about this story.
This is a KU audiobook