A review by jessmanners
Cobble Hill by Cecily Von Ziegesar
2.0
I generally like books with this structure--where the disparate pieces slowly converge, but...ugh, I dunno. There were moments that were kind of funny, and there were moments when I liked some of the characters, but for the most part, they're all sort of terrible, and not in a fun I-hate-these-people-so-much way, just in an, ugh-why-are-they-so-selfish-and-boring way...which also meant that any of their interpersonal drama felt very...benign and banal. Which, coward that I am, was sort of fine--even with the dramatic at the end, it just felt...fine. Like, this will all work out, and even if it doesn't, I don't care about them, and they don't seem to care about each other, and even when things catch up to characters, everyone seems to do some immediate combination of forgiving and forgetting, so the consequences feel...inconsequential.