Elisabeth McMichael
I enjoyed this book but I don’t think the memoir/documentary narrative was as effective as it could have been. I always felt very detached from the main characters which works for the documentary style but didn’t work for the romance and drama that this book really boasts about. Like the drama was there for sure but sometimes it fell flat because I didn’t get the characters FEELINGS as deep as I needed to. Like I truly felt like i was watching a documentary about people I don’t know. I would have liked more emotional depth around the events and to have spent more time with the dramatic events and how they played out in between. I also thought the final few things were out of place and we didn’t have enough foreshadowing to make it seem like yeah those are things that they would do/would happen to them.
Overall, I enjoyed my time with this book. It definitely provided the drama but not always the emotional depth needed to make me care.
I enjoyed this book but I don’t think the memoir/documentary narrative was as effective as it could have been. I always felt very detached from the main characters which works for the documentary style but didn’t work for the romance and drama that this book really boasts about. Like the drama was there for sure but sometimes it fell flat because I didn’t get the characters FEELINGS as deep as I needed to. Like I truly felt like i was watching a documentary about people I don’t know. I would have liked more emotional depth around the events and to have spent more time with the dramatic events and how they played out in between. I also thought the final few things were out of place and we didn’t have enough foreshadowing to make it seem like yeah those are things that they would do/would happen to them.
Overall, I enjoyed my time with this book. It definitely provided the drama but not always the emotional depth needed to make me care.