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Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult

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adventurous emotional hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I’m conflicted about this book. It does throw you back into the world of the pandemic and very accurately portrays the emotions many of us went through during the early months when we had no idea what was going on with COVID and the many unknowns of March / April / May 2020 - I didn’t really connect with the main character though. While at the beginning I loved the foreshadowing of the mockingbird / finches adaptation to survive, after that the book sort of fell flat  . I loved hearing the perspectives of the COVID ICU boyfriend (and other front-line people of the hospital) but I just couldn’t put myself in the shoes of the MC and connect, perhaps it’s because I only ever had a mild case of COVID but her choices in the end seemed rushed even though the entire rest of the book was utterly slow paced. 

I also did not really enjoy the blatant John Lennon/Yoko Ono references. There could have been a more creative way to make the jumping off point rather than an mimicking an actual horrid past event that happened with John Lennon’s murder.
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