Barn 8

Sadly, I thought I would enjoy this waaaay more than I did. I felt like the characters were so vaguely described I didn't really get to know any of them and I felt bludgeoned to death with “clever”. Isn't this clever? It's so clever! The author is so smart that you will never really get this!
And I did not get it. I wasn't on board with the heist, I didn't understand the extreme foreshadowing that sucked all of the tension out of the plot and I consistently felt like the chickens were safer where they were.
I read this in small chunks over a week and never had a problem setting it back down to read something else. In the beginning, I wanted to be Janey's biggest cheerleader. I loved the idea of two Janeys and imagining what the other, East Coast Janey, was doing. But then Janey just kind of falls into the background and falls flat. Feeling like it was tacked on, we get glimpses of the future of these characters via flashforwards.
Maybe this is a case of you have to be there? Maybe if I had a toe in the world of animal activism or a chicken best friend this would mean more to me.