A review by dsugai
Adelaide by Genevieve Wheeler

  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

This might be the best 3 star book I’ve read. I loved parts of it but I was really disappointed in other sequences. 
I’m glad I finished this book, but I was taken out of the story when
Nathalie dies and Rory & Adelaide are both in serious grief when she was a minor character who really lacked development. I would have loved to see why they were so shaken by her death, but she only encounters Adelaide twice. And her backstory with Rory is more focused on his view of the relationship.


She had fallen in love the same way one slips at the grocery store, despite the CAUTION: WET signs lining any given aisle-quickly, accidentally, and fully aware of the mess into which she was getting herself.
That he was beautiful and maybe her soul mate and also that she kind of hated him?
Because if we knew, if we honestly knew the price of love was grief, we'd never do it. We'd never succumb in the first place. And once we do-once we fall in love, against our better judgment, with something or someone—we never want to let go.
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