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Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah
2.0
I wanted to like this book but I just didn't. I couldn't stand either of the two main characters at all. Kate was spineless and I just wanted to shake her and tell her to grow a spine! Tully (I didn't like that name. Silly, I'm sure but it distracted me a lot to read it) was a narcissistic bitch who needed a slap of reality. The book spans 3 decades but I feel like neither character ever grew as women or individuals. It felt like the author just wanted to cram so many years of history into the book that she forgot about character development. I also didn't feel like Kate's husband loved her at all. I didn't feel like I got to watch them fall in love and grow together as a married couple. It was just "boom, I love you, let's get married." Kate's children were brats, too. Well, at least, the teen-aged daughter was. Her younger sons were just unrealistically rambunctious.
As for the sole purpose of this book, the friendship between the two women, I didn't buy it as genuine at all. Their conflicting personalities did not complement one another as much as it felt to me like each girl used the other for her own benefit. Kate used Tully to feel cool and popular, while Tully just basically walked all over Kate and decided everything they would both do, right down to which course to major in in college. I wish Kate had just told Tully to back off and let her do her own thing, but no, she never did. She let everyone walk all over her and it drove me crazy. Tully was selfish and just took, took, took, never truly giving, not even in the end.
I wanted to like this book because I've enjoyed a couple of Kristin Hannah's books in the past, but I was bored and didn't really care about anyone in the book. I also enjoy books about female friendships but I prefer mine to have a little more heart, thanks!
As for the sole purpose of this book, the friendship between the two women, I didn't buy it as genuine at all. Their conflicting personalities did not complement one another as much as it felt to me like each girl used the other for her own benefit. Kate used Tully to feel cool and popular, while Tully just basically walked all over Kate and decided everything they would both do, right down to which course to major in in college. I wish Kate had just told Tully to back off and let her do her own thing, but no, she never did. She let everyone walk all over her and it drove me crazy. Tully was selfish and just took, took, took, never truly giving, not even in the end.
I wanted to like this book because I've enjoyed a couple of Kristin Hannah's books in the past, but I was bored and didn't really care about anyone in the book. I also enjoy books about female friendships but I prefer mine to have a little more heart, thanks!