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A review by costamiri
Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult
emotional
lighthearted
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
This book is about Covid. Didn't want to.
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This would normally be out of my own genre-spectrum but the description seemed interesting and I wanted to challenge myself a bit. For as long as the teased action took place, I was entertained in some way, but I found the length of the chapters very confusing. The book has 18 chapters packed into two parts, but nine of them are only one or two pages long, resulting in stressfully long chapters of around 30 pages. Diana is stranded on a lonely island and it is quite nice to see her struggle her way and build relationships with Gabriel and Beatriz. I was interested in their journey as people but their trips around the island felt quite repetitive and boring. Then the turn, the great split in the middle, happened and it felt like betrayal. All the before in a new light, and many new questions. I was disappointed at that and the remaining second part was very different in a way I wasn't able to enjoy. Her relationship to Finn is very weird during the plot. As they are disconnected, his parts are solely about Covid, about a pandemic she has avoided, every single email just tells COVID from March 2020. It's annoying. And it got worse later in the book. The book description hinted nothing to that, contrary I thought it would tell more about an escape. Disappointment. Finn did not reflect the person she is in love with or was. Not even *a person*, Finn is just the tool to tell about covid, a window about the weeks when this pandemic started. The ending of the story again was very predictable and exactly what I expected after reading the description and the epilog ending was even more predictable. Not a good feeling.
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This would normally be out of my own genre-spectrum but the description seemed interesting and I wanted to challenge myself a bit. For as long as the teased action took place, I was entertained in some way, but I found the length of the chapters very confusing. The book has 18 chapters packed into two parts, but nine of them are only one or two pages long, resulting in stressfully long chapters of around 30 pages. Diana is stranded on a lonely island and it is quite nice to see her struggle her way and build relationships with Gabriel and Beatriz. I was interested in their journey as people but their trips around the island felt quite repetitive and boring. Then the turn, the great split in the middle, happened and it felt like betrayal. All the before in a new light, and many new questions. I was disappointed at that and the remaining second part was very different in a way I wasn't able to enjoy. Her relationship to Finn is very weird during the plot. As they are disconnected, his parts are solely about Covid, about a pandemic she has avoided, every single email just tells COVID from March 2020. It's annoying. And it got worse later in the book. The book description hinted nothing to that, contrary I thought it would tell more about an escape. Disappointment. Finn did not reflect the person she is in love with or was. Not even *a person*, Finn is just the tool to tell about covid, a window about the weeks when this pandemic started. The ending of the story again was very predictable and exactly what I expected after reading the description and the epilog ending was even more predictable. Not a good feeling.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content and Dementia