micrummey's review
1.0
The author should learn to write, too many repetitions of the same words within 7 or 8 lines,for instance the word wonders appears 5 times in 7 lines in the last two pages. I got frustrated in reading suddenly or then so often, why didn't she edit them out?
The story which there wasn't much of follows 3 generations of women in Blackpool 2 of these women are twins Grace and Elsie who are given the two most out of date names of any character in literature, considering they were born in 1979 and by the time they are 21 are speaking and acting like two old women. The two sisters run a book shop and I started to think why, because they had so many arguments about the shop and not many customers.
In the end I was glad to finish this tortuous novel and had no empathy for any of the characters.
The story which there wasn't much of follows 3 generations of women in Blackpool 2 of these women are twins Grace and Elsie who are given the two most out of date names of any character in literature, considering they were born in 1979 and by the time they are 21 are speaking and acting like two old women. The two sisters run a book shop and I started to think why, because they had so many arguments about the shop and not many customers.
In the end I was glad to finish this tortuous novel and had no empathy for any of the characters.
snowflakessunshinebooks's review
This book was phenomenal.
I was swept up in the stories of Rose, Louisa, Grace and Elsie from page one.
The third person writing style usually annoys me, and I struggle to connect with characters in books written this style, but I barley noticed!
I loved this story, it made me smile, gave me feels… beautiful.
I read it: on the sofa, in bed, at the bus stop, on the bus and even walked to and from placement with my nose buried in the pages!
My only fault?
It isn't long enough :(
I was swept up in the stories of Rose, Louisa, Grace and Elsie from page one.
The third person writing style usually annoys me, and I struggle to connect with characters in books written this style, but I barley noticed!
I loved this story, it made me smile, gave me feels… beautiful.
I read it: on the sofa, in bed, at the bus stop, on the bus and even walked to and from placement with my nose buried in the pages!
My only fault?
It isn't long enough :(
tiarabooks_'s review
4.0
Not bad at all for a debut novel! What I like the most about this book is that it's so unpredictable, I just want to flip the pages until the end to know what happen to Rose, Louisa & Grace. The only reason this book lack one star from me is because I didn't really like the writing style and I think the author keep repeating some unnecessary part.
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