Scan barcode
A review by lilly_dav_reading
Crooked Hallelujah by Kelli Jo Ford
3.0
I understand what the book was trying to do, a tale of three women and the generational trauma that they experience and an understanding that it is all cyclical… those aspects I really appreciated.
But like others have said - the book is very disjointed. The stories jump around and you think “well maybe this will make sense later”, but it never does. There is no rising action or climax- simply just stories being priced together. And yes, it’s about trauma- but then the cycle never breaks- there are no revelations the characters go out the way that they came. All written in strange not matching formatting.
There’s always a disaster brewing in each story and you think again “well maybe this will
Make sense later” but again- it doesn’t.
So I didn’t love this book, but I didn’t hate it. I just thought it could have been a little more than it was.
But like others have said - the book is very disjointed. The stories jump around and you think “well maybe this will make sense later”, but it never does. There is no rising action or climax- simply just stories being priced together. And yes, it’s about trauma- but then the cycle never breaks- there are no revelations the characters go out the way that they came. All written in strange not matching formatting.
There’s always a disaster brewing in each story and you think again “well maybe this will
Make sense later” but again- it doesn’t.
So I didn’t love this book, but I didn’t hate it. I just thought it could have been a little more than it was.