I will try not to give any spoilers away during my review. Overall I would say that I liked the book. I am a Russo fan so I tend to enjoy fiction that is more character driven. This book fits the character driven category of fiction. The point of character driven fiction is to produce vibrant characters, I am not sure if these characters were quite vibrant enough for me. The main character is a little bit one-dimensional. His driving force is a little unclear. […]
The easiest way is always to work through a suitable man
Man, I needed this book, and I don’t mean that in any particularly deep way. It’s just that the last couple of months, I’ve been deep into the Stephen King, and the Naomi Novik, and then unexpectedly took the deep dive into Red Rising. All of which has been absolutely outstanding, but it’s been kind of super rich reading. A very dear friend recommended The Summer Before the War, and so I put it on my library hold list… and that very same night it […]
A lovely romance — what Brooklyn should have been
I think part of my dislike for Brooklyn could be attributed to how much I liked Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand. I read/listened to the two over the same few days, and Helen Simonson’s did such a great job with the gentle romance in this novel — set in modern times but with decidedly “old fashioned” characters — that it I think it made me dislike Eilis even more. “But I must ask you, do you really understand what it means to be in love with an unsuitable woman?” “My […]