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A review by jessferg
Keep Your Mouth Shut and Wear Beige by Kathleen Gilles Seidel
2.0
This is my least favorite type of review to try and write. This book is totally okay. Despite a very lazy editor leaving lots of obvious typos, the writing is fine, the story is fine, the characters are fine - it's just soooo boring.
I wouldn't dissuade anyone from reading this, and I do think there is an audience that would absolutely adore it, but I'm not it.
Pretty much the entire book is the inside of this woman's head as she gets ready to attend her son's wedding - all the divided family crap, all the in-law meeting, all the planning, all the stupid clothes, - ugh. BORING.
Darcy (our narrator) spends a lot of time trying to convince us what a strong woman she is but not actually doing anything a strong woman would do. I didn't dislike her, per se, but at some point I def needed her to show me this backbone she kept claiming to have. I don't think I ever saw it.
When we finally get to something exciting (in the last 30 pages or so), it's event on top of event on top of event and of course our heroine is indeed a heroine and our villain is indeed our villain. (Should I say it again? I shall. Boring.)
But everything wraps up neatly and that's all that really matters, right?
In conclusion, I prefer Chuck Palahniuk.
I wouldn't dissuade anyone from reading this, and I do think there is an audience that would absolutely adore it, but I'm not it.
Pretty much the entire book is the inside of this woman's head as she gets ready to attend her son's wedding - all the divided family crap, all the in-law meeting, all the planning, all the stupid clothes, - ugh. BORING.
Darcy (our narrator) spends a lot of time trying to convince us what a strong woman she is but not actually doing anything a strong woman would do. I didn't dislike her, per se, but at some point I def needed her to show me this backbone she kept claiming to have. I don't think I ever saw it.
When we finally get to something exciting (in the last 30 pages or so), it's event on top of event on top of event and of course our heroine is indeed a heroine and our villain is indeed our villain. (Should I say it again? I shall. Boring.)
But everything wraps up neatly and that's all that really matters, right?
In conclusion, I prefer Chuck Palahniuk.