A review by findyourgoldenhour
Beyond the Point by Claire Gibson
2.0
I had such hopes for this book, but it’s a 498-page hot mess.
I picked it up because it’s about women at West Point, about their lives and relationships and deployments in a post-9/11 world. Sounds interesting and original! But this book made me wonder if there was even an editor for this thing? It did not need to be so long. Yet there were pivotal plot points that were merely glossed over, with barely any detail! So many pages with so much meandering!
I was thinking it was a solid three-star read until the last quarter, and then it all fell apart. So many cliche characters and unbelievable story arcs. What a let down.
I picked it up because it’s about women at West Point, about their lives and relationships and deployments in a post-9/11 world. Sounds interesting and original! But this book made me wonder if there was even an editor for this thing? It did not need to be so long. Yet there were pivotal plot points that were merely glossed over, with barely any detail! So many pages with so much meandering!
I was thinking it was a solid three-star read until the last quarter, and then it all fell apart. So many cliche characters and unbelievable story arcs. What a let down.