A review by kcronin
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart

3.0

I decided to read this after seeing it on a few lists of the best 2020 books. It is a pretty dark and depressing book, but the character’s raw emotions definitely come through. I do appreciate poor Shuggie’s resilience in the story. Honestly though, my 3 star review is because I felt like the pace of the story was pretty slow and I felt the book could’ve been about 100 pages shorter based on the storyline. I had a hard time getting into the book and thought the beginning was hard to follow.