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A review by alimoo511
The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
I feel like this book's biggest fail is that it's very slow and intentional, but it's too short in length for that format to have successfully done what it was supposed to do.
I think it's very reminiscent of A Time Traveler's Wife and Addie Larue, which are both longer reads, and I think this book should have been closer in length to compensate for its pace.
I loved the romance I truly did, but I couldn't fully root for them when I felt like we missed so much of their real-time development.
I love subtle love stories like this, but they work best again with a longer story.
And also (spoiler time) I feel like with a story so heavily influenced by parenthood and so beautifully entangles both fatherhood and motherhood together and how they influence each other we didn't get enough time dwelling into the fatherhood side of things especially when we compare them to how much we were being told of motherhood.
I wanted the influences of Nathaniel's and Eamon's parenting to be shown just as strongly in contrast to each other as June and her family's were.
Like I get this was about the Farrow women but I ultimately believe since we spent so much of the story being shown how even the men in the Farrow's lives influenced each other that it couldn't be a story that so thinly involved them.
In other words, I once again wish author's showed us more of their male character's morals and motivations beyond just love interest or antagonist. If she did Mason's impact as the brother June actually had and deserved would have actually shown through instead of giving him the feel of discarded love interest who was family zoned.
I think it's very reminiscent of A Time Traveler's Wife and Addie Larue, which are both longer reads, and I think this book should have been closer in length to compensate for its pace.
I loved the romance I truly did, but I couldn't fully root for them when I felt like we missed so much of their real-time development.
I love subtle love stories like this, but they work best again with a longer story.
And also (spoiler time) I feel like with a story so heavily influenced by parenthood and so beautifully entangles both fatherhood and motherhood together and how they influence each other we didn't get enough time dwelling into the fatherhood side of things especially when we compare them to how much we were being told of motherhood.
I wanted the influences of Nathaniel's and Eamon's parenting to be shown just as strongly in contrast to each other as June and her family's were.
Like I get this was about the Farrow women but I ultimately believe since we spent so much of the story being shown how even the men in the Farrow's lives influenced each other that it couldn't be a story that so thinly involved them.
In other words, I once again wish author's showed us more of their male character's morals and motivations beyond just love interest or antagonist. If she did Mason's impact as the brother June actually had and deserved would have actually shown through instead of giving him the feel of discarded love interest who was family zoned.