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A review by josmrrs
Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult
1.0
I skipped a lot of this as so much unnecessary and, quite frankly, boring detail was included re the protagonist’s career background and the landscape of the Galapagos. I actually finished the book thinking: so what was the relevance of her type of career?
I felt it was lazy, shallow and a bit stereotypical-main-character-female: she’s beautiful and she doesn’t know it, people fall at her feet, and she tackles very few ideas of what normal women contemplate and tackle on a daily basis. It felt almost like a man had written it. There were also so many lines where I thought “No one would say that,” and it cringed me out. Also - Finn’s letters were so verbose that I skipped a lot of those as well. Perhaps they will be interesting to generations that didn’t experience COVID-19, but as we have first-hand accounts for that, I think it’s probably unlikely that they will hold up historically.
I felt it was lazy, shallow and a bit stereotypical-main-character-female: she’s beautiful and she doesn’t know it, people fall at her feet, and she tackles very few ideas of what normal women contemplate and tackle on a daily basis. It felt almost like a man had written it. There were also so many lines where I thought “No one would say that,” and it cringed me out. Also - Finn’s letters were so verbose that I skipped a lot of those as well. Perhaps they will be interesting to generations that didn’t experience COVID-19, but as we have first-hand accounts for that, I think it’s probably unlikely that they will hold up historically.