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A review by thegingerbeast
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
1.0
Terrible book. I was really excited to read this and now I'm just mad that I wasted so much money and time. The back synopsis is totally different from what I read. I expected something fun and quirky and instead I got a book that was literally so disheartening and depressing that I put it down for days and would not pick it up. I rarely have that problem.
The family in the story was extremely one-dimensional with no real background to relate to. There was no subplot. It was rushed. Time jumped too fast without any real transition. And I'm still extremely confused about what the hell was going on with Joseph. For the first half of the book I was 100% convinced that he had Autism or Aspergers but then the "chair scene" happened and all I could think was "what the fuck does she mean, this is the worst description of a scene I have ever read" and "what the heck is wrong with this guy, now he is just insane".
Bender waited until the very end of the book for Rose's father to randomly say "oh, btw, your grandfather had the same thing as you!" and even then the moment that I was waiting for the most,when she would tell her family, was the shittiest excuse for a "big reveal" ever.
Structurally, the way the dialogue was written was crap. There were no quotation marks, no way to distinquish when a character was talking or when it was just internal monologue.
Overall, extreme waste of time.
The family in the story was extremely one-dimensional with no real background to relate to. There was no subplot. It was rushed. Time jumped too fast without any real transition. And I'm still extremely confused about what the hell was going on with Joseph. For the first half of the book I was 100% convinced that he had Autism or Aspergers but then the "chair scene" happened and all I could think was "what the fuck does she mean, this is the worst description of a scene I have ever read" and "what the heck is wrong with this guy, now he is just insane".
Bender waited until the very end of the book for Rose's father to randomly say "oh, btw, your grandfather had the same thing as you!" and even then the moment that I was waiting for the most,when she would tell her family, was the shittiest excuse for a "big reveal" ever.
Structurally, the way the dialogue was written was crap. There were no quotation marks, no way to distinquish when a character was talking or when it was just internal monologue.
Overall, extreme waste of time.