bookedbymadeline's review
I usually DNF at 50 pages but I have this one a bit longer since it’s a bigger book. I set this aside in December 2021 to focus on other books but I can’t keep doing that for the next few years. I usually love multigenerational sagas with switching POVs so the concept was perfect for me but the execution fell short.
As another reviewer put it, DuPont writes for the sake of filling up pages. It’s extremely slow with nothing of note of consequence happening. Each chapter focuses on a new character of the Lamontagne family with stories that are seemingly not related to an overall plot/common theme. There’s one chapter that’s about a neighbor girl that’s 150 pages long-WHY?!
This book is too slow, boring, and filled with unnecessary details. I can’t suffer through it anymore; this could’ve easily been half the size and maybe it would’ve been better.
TW: death during childbirth
As another reviewer put it, DuPont writes for the sake of filling up pages. It’s extremely slow with nothing of note of consequence happening. Each chapter focuses on a new character of the Lamontagne family with stories that are seemingly not related to an overall plot/common theme. There’s one chapter that’s about a neighbor girl that’s 150 pages long-WHY?!
This book is too slow, boring, and filled with unnecessary details. I can’t suffer through it anymore; this could’ve easily been half the size and maybe it would’ve been better.
TW: death during childbirth
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, and Blood
Moderate: Child abuse and Suicide
Minor: Animal death and War
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