A review by heykstan
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

2.0

I really wanted to love this book but when it was over I just wanted to yell "UGHHH WHY" because I had spent so much time on it. It frustrated the hell out of me. First of all, it was about 100 pages too long. Atwood could have cut out that much detail and not sacrificed any story. Grace gives us every tiny detail of what daily life is like as a servant in the 1800s. I kept expecting there to be a reason at the end, like she was giving all these small details to confuse or distract the interviewer from the truth. Nope! Just detail for the sake of it.

It finally started to get interesting towards the end when the spiritualism things happened, but that storyline wasn't followed at all. It was just an insane thing that happened and then was dropped completely.

I wonder if the Netflix series flows better but I'm not sure if I want to spend the time to find out.