A review by balancinghistorybooks
Iris & Ruby by Rosie Thomas

2.0

I wasn't sure what to expect with Rosie Thomas' work; I was hoping something akin to Kate Morton, but it appeared far more fluffy and drawn out than Morton's often careful, and well-built, plots. Whilst the storyline sounded okay, it was Egypt which really drew me in when deciding whether to buy this in a charity shop, and I did feel as though Thomas did a good job at building Cairo for the reader. The characters, however, are markedly flat, and their dialogue is both stilted and unnatural. I did not care at all about the characters or what Thomas held in store for them, and gave up around sixty pages in. Not for me.