A review by heykellyjensen
Pearl by Jo Knowles

2.0

I didn't care for this one. It was a bit melodramatic for me, and all of the instances with the fathers felt inauthentic. This was a story about the parents and not the kids, and so when the kids show no emotions about being fatherless, I can't really connect or feel it's realistic (*I* was ready to scream repeatedly on the deadbeat fathers here, maybe because the fatherless storyline was so familiar to me as one of those kids. But these two showed no emotions at all about it - just...why not? That was where the story could have gone!).

Full review here: http://www.stackedbooks.org/2011/12/pearl-by-jo-knowles.html

(Sometimes, fyi, what I write on GoodReads is much more my gut reaction than what I end up thinking when I revisit the book for a more thorough review -- this happened to be one of those cases).