This was the July pick in my online book club The Reading Cove.
While I was very much engaged in the storyline and invested in wanting to know how things turned out, the writing style suffered at times from too much summarization. There was so much told but not shown. There were so many key scenes and events that begged to be written out, witnessed by the reader, but were not.
Lavinia and Belle narrate the story, and it's an uneven narration. Belle's chapters are far shorter than Lavinia's. Yet, Belle with her stubbornness and impulsiveness managed to annoy me more than Lavinia, LOL.
All in all, I give it a B- on the Cove scale. I can't say it was a satisfying read, but I enjoyed it more than not. It kept me turning the pages, and I did care about the travails of the characters and how things would turn out for them. It was a very eventful and sobering read.
While I was very much engaged in the storyline and invested in wanting to know how things turned out, the writing style suffered at times from too much summarization. There was so much told but not shown. There were so many key scenes and events that begged to be written out, witnessed by the reader, but were not.
Lavinia and Belle narrate the story, and it's an uneven narration. Belle's chapters are far shorter than Lavinia's. Yet, Belle with her stubbornness and impulsiveness managed to annoy me more than Lavinia, LOL.
All in all, I give it a B- on the Cove scale. I can't say it was a satisfying read, but I enjoyed it more than not. It kept me turning the pages, and I did care about the travails of the characters and how things would turn out for them. It was a very eventful and sobering read.
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