novelesque_life's review against another edition
3.0
RATING: 2.5 STARS
(Review Not on Blog)
This novel started out with so much promise, but 90 pages in I was a bit confused and started to get tired of keeping up with the story. It is well-written in that the prose is beautiful, but I just didn't gel with the story and characters as I thought I would. I would try another book by the author.
(Review Not on Blog)
This novel started out with so much promise, but 90 pages in I was a bit confused and started to get tired of keeping up with the story. It is well-written in that the prose is beautiful, but I just didn't gel with the story and characters as I thought I would. I would try another book by the author.
findyourgoldenhour's review against another edition
3.0
Barely 3. The summary of the story should be a home run for me, but the writing was so stilted and disjointed it often felt like a slog. I wanted to love it but by the end I was glad to be able to pick up something else. That said, the actual story was good and brought out deeper questions to consider about community and who gets to decide how it evolves. And I really liked the characters! The characters felt very real. Sigh. This could’ve been a home run.
jtlars7's review against another edition
4.0
Really good, with a full cast of richly imagined characters.
emgusk's review against another edition
4.0
I liked this a lot. The parts with the mice were creative and how she wrote from the perspective of Aunt Glad was really beautiful. I imagined it all like a play.
mbondlamberty's review against another edition
3.0
Perhaps it is because at this moment in my life (our lives?) I would like either pleasure or knowledge from the books I read and this one gave me neither I gave it 3 stars. Or was it that all the characters were just too precious, just too self-involved. The writing was descriptive, but left me wanting more details. It wasn't really a page turner but nor was it uninteresting. I did finish it which I don't always do, but not necessarily going to seek out other books by this author. But at the same time how do you compete with the Black Lives Movement and a pandemic for bandwidth, so perhaps it is too much to ask of a book?
awin82's review against another edition
2.0
A solid 2.5. The author likes the sound of her voice more than I do.
rojaed's review against another edition
2.0
It’s readable, but a bit like writing to a formula. Humour, pathos, and a tidy ending. Children were fun, but a bit unrealistic. Some of the adults, too
giorgiabrus's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
Ho apprezzato la narrazione corale di varie storie, i personaggi ben descritti, la storia procede bene. Il finale un po' spento, però per il resto mi è piaciuto molto.
irena_smith's review against another edition
5.0
What a great big bear hug of a book—warm, exuberant, funny, and so sharply and vividly executed that it reads like a master class in plot development and characterization. The deftly woven plot strands and joyful confusion reminded me at moments of A Midsummer Night's Dream (a few secondary characters are even referred to as "rude mechanicals"), and more than once I was awestruck by the ease with which Leah Hager Cohen manages to convincingly inhabit every possible point of view, including that of a fading octogenarian, an indefatigable five-year-old boy with an aversion to wearing pants and an absorption with all things military, and even a mouse that lives in the walls of the aging Elrend-Blumenthal house and to gracefully juggle them against the backdrop of an impending wedding and a looming change in the demographics of Rundle Junction, the town in which the story takes place. I envy anyone about to step into its world for the first time!