Member Reviews
Reviewer 517474
This book is… well let’s just say that its title is absolutely perfect for the type of story this is. It’s all about relationships and how those relationships interact with one another throughout the course of…several months? Maybe a year? Honestly not sure on that timeline, now that I really sit down and try to think it through. It has nice pacing, the characters come across as relatable, even if they’re not super in depth- they don’t really need to be, not with how the narrative just skims the surface and reveals more as they go along.
The transitions were where I sort of struggled with this book. It has a certain style that you really have to get used to, otherwise when it jumps from time skip to time skip or character to character, it can take a few lines for you to not only decipher what character is the focus (if it starts it with just a pronoun) but to settle back into that arc of the storyline. Other than that it was a quiet book, with quiet stakes, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Not for this type of book, not at all.
I had personal gripes with a couple of the characters- like why does Emily’s husband basically gets to get away with being a pouty, jealous brat and then rewarded with the death of one of his “adversaries” if we’d even call him that. Like that was annoying that he basically got his way on everything, while Emily didn’t really grow as a character or a mother- in fact none of the characters exhibit any growth except for maybe Linda, maybe, but even then that was a tiny thing, and that was only because she got the short end of the stick, situations wise. Or Seth, who wasn’t much of a character to begin with.
For what it spotlights, this book is pretty good. I liked it, I was engaged in it. I was annoyed at a few things, and I think it had the potential to have an even more in depth plot. But as it sits, yeah it’s a good story.
