Helpful Score: 2
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Ugghhh.
I think that's a good word to describe how I felt upon finishing this book. There are so many things that bothered me about it. Short, curt dialogue. No ending. And the main one. Unbelievable.
Let's start with the dialogue. I get that Rose is 8 years old when this book starts out but by the time the book ends she's 22 and she still talks like she's 8. Maybe it's just Aimee Bender's writing style but it's annoying none the less.
Second, the no ending bothered me. I thought the whole premise of a book was a beginnning, middle & end. With the end being where everything gets wrapped up. This just stopped. Nothing was resolved.
And lastly, this book was just unbelieveable in the worst ways. I mean I can half believe that Rose has a special gift where she can feel people through the food that they cook. I can even believe that her grandfather could smell people & it would have been nice to say for certain whether her father could feel sick people in hospitals but the fact that her brother Joseph can apparenly turn into a chair? Seriously? This book isn't found in the fantasy section. If I wanted to read a fantasy book I would have picked a much better one.
Ugghhh.
I think that's a good word to describe how I felt upon finishing this book. There are so many things that bothered me about it. Short, curt dialogue. No ending. And the main one. Unbelievable.
Let's start with the dialogue. I get that Rose is 8 years old when this book starts out but by the time the book ends she's 22 and she still talks like she's 8. Maybe it's just Aimee Bender's writing style but it's annoying none the less.
Second, the no ending bothered me. I thought the whole premise of a book was a beginnning, middle & end. With the end being where everything gets wrapped up. This just stopped. Nothing was resolved.
And lastly, this book was just unbelieveable in the worst ways. I mean I can half believe that Rose has a special gift where she can feel people through the food that they cook. I can even believe that her grandfather could smell people & it would have been nice to say for certain whether her father could feel sick people in hospitals but the fact that her brother Joseph can apparenly turn into a chair? Seriously? This book isn't found in the fantasy section. If I wanted to read a fantasy book I would have picked a much better one.
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