I just finished I Found You by Jewell and really liked it so thought I'd try another one---but this one just fell flat, it's just so boring and so much of it just doesn't make sense, it lost me in the first 100 pages and that is all I'll allow for a book to get my attention
For me this is poorly written and disappointing especially after reading the other book
For me this is poorly written and disappointing especially after reading the other book
After reading all the reviews for this book, I was looking forward to a great whodunit, what I found was, sadly, disappointing and left me wanting.
A festive neighborhood party is taking place and Pip discovers her 13 year old sister, Grace, unconscious and bloody in a rose garden. What happened to her? And who is responsible? I have read a few other books by Lisa Jewell and really enjoyed them all but this one seemed to fall flat for me. I t was an interesting story but the end did not really make sense to me. If you want to read Lisa Jewell, I suggest you start with another of her books.
Clare and her two daughters, Grace and Pip, move into a flat that backs onto a large communal garden shared by the surrounding residents. The girls become friendly with a group of kids in the park including three sisters who are homeschooled by their mother Adele. The book starts with Pip finding Grace half unclothed and passed out in the garden after a party. Then the book is divided into the before and the after. The before sets the stage - the kids in the garden, lots of odd characters, and a death of another young girl 20 years before. The after is the "what happened?" part of the book. At the end the reader knows what happened to Grace as well as to the girl who died 20 years earlier, but there is no real resolution among the garden residents. It was a good story with lots of quirky characters but not particularly suspenseful. The ending was a little flat - Clare and her family move away and Adele has lots of unanswered questions but buries them and moves on with her unorthodox lifestyle.
