I have really enjoyed Kagen's other novels but not so much this one. The story is told through an "imaginary friend".
It left me unable to really get into the characters. It created a distance between the characters and me as a reader that I could not get past. The story itself seemed to get a lot of positive reviews but I could not get past the "telling of" it. So I stopped and posted it so someone could enjoy it..
It left me unable to really get into the characters. It created a distance between the characters and me as a reader that I could not get past. The story itself seemed to get a lot of positive reviews but I could not get past the "telling of" it. So I stopped and posted it so someone could enjoy it..
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A book with quite an interesting character who is trying to keep a lot of things in the air and I am not sure she is doing it all that well. Tess has grown up a lot since the novella reviewed this morning and she has created quite the to do list to accomplish. She has quite the hurdles in her life to overcome - a medical diagnosis for her and for her daughter, a husband who doesn't seem connected in the relationship and a son who is doing the teenage years.
This as well as the novella have an interesting narrator - an imaginary friend. I am not sure that I enjoyed having this really different narration - I didn't mind it as much in the novella due to the girls being childhood ages, but being adults and having this imaginary friend tell the story was just a little odd. AND it was hard to read at a few times, I wish Tess had told her own story, it made me feel less connected to Tess.
A book with quite an interesting character who is trying to keep a lot of things in the air and I am not sure she is doing it all that well. Tess has grown up a lot since the novella reviewed this morning and she has created quite the to do list to accomplish. She has quite the hurdles in her life to overcome - a medical diagnosis for her and for her daughter, a husband who doesn't seem connected in the relationship and a son who is doing the teenage years.
This as well as the novella have an interesting narrator - an imaginary friend. I am not sure that I enjoyed having this really different narration - I didn't mind it as much in the novella due to the girls being childhood ages, but being adults and having this imaginary friend tell the story was just a little odd. AND it was hard to read at a few times, I wish Tess had told her own story, it made me feel less connected to Tess.
