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A review by justjoel
The House by the River by Lena Manta
1.0
There were really good and really horrid parts of this book. The opening was decent: the sisters were young and living at home. The book was strongest after the girls left their village and embarked on their own adventures, as each told their story.
Everything went crashing off the rails in the final chapter. So much trite sappiness wrapped in a semi-feminist shroud, then drowned in religious overtones ruined everything that had come before for me. The honoring of parents (or failure to do so) and the sense of being punished for "sins" were definitely written by someone who has yelled, "You kids get off my lawn!" I rolled my eyes and muttered, "Okay, boomer," more than once in the final 20 minutes.
1 out of 5 stars.
Everything went crashing off the rails in the final chapter. So much trite sappiness wrapped in a semi-feminist shroud, then drowned in religious overtones ruined everything that had come before for me. The honoring of parents (or failure to do so) and the sense of being punished for "sins" were definitely written by someone who has yelled, "You kids get off my lawn!" I rolled my eyes and muttered, "Okay, boomer," more than once in the final 20 minutes.
1 out of 5 stars.