I was captivated by this one too. Was not expecting the time jump in part two. I liked how the ending left lots of questions and left me with more to think about!
Right? Especially because it came so late. I did have a moment where I was like “huh wonder how we’re building to if she’s only here 2 weeks based on the pacing so far” but then I slipped right back into the story so when Part 2 came I was like “oh, that makes sense.”
I just finished this and found it very disappointing, it seemed much more commercial then literary, which I wasn’t expecting with the accolades the author has received in the past. The most impressive parts to me were the intersection of what I assume to be groups of actual true crime details which were listed and interspersed throughout the book, reminiscent of the intrusion of actual Irish Troubles events in Magee’s The Colony. I’ve never read Jodi Picoult or Scott Turow, but this is kind of what I imagine them to be like, books for the store in the airport.
To be honest, as commercial as Picoult is, when I read her as a teen she really did complicate hard topics. I felt like this one wanted to, but the end felt a little more deus Ex machina than twist (even if there wasn’t technically a neat little bow).
I was captivated by this one too. Was not expecting the time jump in part two. I liked how the ending left lots of questions and left me with more to think about!
Right? Especially because it came so late. I did have a moment where I was like “huh wonder how we’re building to if she’s only here 2 weeks based on the pacing so far” but then I slipped right back into the story so when Part 2 came I was like “oh, that makes sense.”
I just finished this and found it very disappointing, it seemed much more commercial then literary, which I wasn’t expecting with the accolades the author has received in the past. The most impressive parts to me were the intersection of what I assume to be groups of actual true crime details which were listed and interspersed throughout the book, reminiscent of the intrusion of actual Irish Troubles events in Magee’s The Colony. I’ve never read Jodi Picoult or Scott Turow, but this is kind of what I imagine them to be like, books for the store in the airport.
To be honest, as commercial as Picoult is, when I read her as a teen she really did complicate hard topics. I felt like this one wanted to, but the end felt a little more deus Ex machina than twist (even if there wasn’t technically a neat little bow).