A review by brinastewart
Brooklyn, by Colm Tóibín

3.0

So, This was a book club pick and I would not have read it if it wasn't. It didn't take long to get me interested in Eilis' life and where the story was going to take me. However, there are a couple of things: 1) it is short, 2) the author began a couple of side story lines that he didn't expand on you use for anything, it became pointless to even mention it, and 3) the blurbs mislead me such as the one that said it was a good story of Eilis maturing and finding herself..., I did not think she matured at all. The last part if the book had her being naive, immature, and inconsistent.

I had hope up until the last part. I don't necessarily regret reading it, I just expected more.