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The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue
Couldn’t give a proper rating for this, it took me so long to get through it for some reason; I didn’t even think it was a bad read.
To start, style and tone of this book was enjoyable for me. I liked how the focus was heavy on Rachel and James as bffs and their shenanigans as twenty - somethings, told from the perspective of an older Rachel. There was something really grounding when she recounts an event and admits how embarrassed she was. I mean, I don’t think we get a lot of narrators (or I may not be reading enough) that admit when they’ve been wrong and/or what they’ve done wrong. In this case, I liked Rachel’s honesty. In a way, telling it all without filters (not hiding that they were all really messy).
This is also one of those books wherein I genuinely wanted every character to be OK. They’re not perfect and it’s one of the aspects that made things feel more real in this book. When they mess up, I was just like “well, that really does happen” and I say that as a twenty - something myself. And as a twenty - something, Rachel and James looking for opportunities, trying to build connections for their career, not knowing where to start, seemingly having no direction was so on point for me actually. Giving a plus for all that.
Aside from all those babble, the ending was not what I expected but I was very glad it went the way it did.
Thanks to Edelweiss and the publisher for the arc!
To start, style and tone of this book was enjoyable for me. I liked how the focus was heavy on Rachel and James as bffs and their shenanigans as twenty - somethings, told from the perspective of an older Rachel. There was something really grounding when she recounts an event and admits how embarrassed she was. I mean, I don’t think we get a lot of narrators (or I may not be reading enough) that admit when they’ve been wrong and/or what they’ve done wrong. In this case, I liked Rachel’s honesty. In a way, telling it all without filters (not hiding that they were all really messy).
This is also one of those books wherein I genuinely wanted every character to be OK. They’re not perfect and it’s one of the aspects that made things feel more real in this book. When they mess up, I was just like “well, that really does happen” and I say that as a twenty - something myself. And as a twenty - something, Rachel and James looking for opportunities, trying to build connections for their career, not knowing where to start, seemingly having no direction was so on point for me actually. Giving a plus for all that.
Aside from all those babble, the ending was not what I expected but I was very glad it went the way it did.
Thanks to Edelweiss and the publisher for the arc!