A review by avesmaria
Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout

reflective sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Excellent writing, truly, although Lucy Barton has to be one of the most irritating, priggish, insufferable old ladies I’ve ever read as narrator/main character. (It seems maybe Olive Kitteridge is even worse, based on her cameo in this book!) I really liked the writing - Strout really peers into the soul - but I’m not sure I could make it through another book of people like this.
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