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A review by kaulyjo
Things I Want My Daughters to Know by Elizabeth Noble
4.0
A dying mother leaves behind letters and a journal that guides her four daughters through the trials of the first year without her.
As a daughter facing the major milestones of adulthood without her mom, this book resonated with me, especially because I found a little of myself in each of the daughters. The writing sometimes seemed as though it was trying too hard, but I will say, for a character who's already dead when the book opens, Barbara has an incredible vibrance. The ending might have tied up a little easily, a little too happily, and I might have wished for the sadness to be a little deeper and a little darker, but it was a decent read.
As a daughter facing the major milestones of adulthood without her mom, this book resonated with me, especially because I found a little of myself in each of the daughters. The writing sometimes seemed as though it was trying too hard, but I will say, for a character who's already dead when the book opens, Barbara has an incredible vibrance. The ending might have tied up a little easily, a little too happily, and I might have wished for the sadness to be a little deeper and a little darker, but it was a decent read.