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A review by gorecki
Amy & Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout
3.0
I love Elizabeth Strout. What she does in Olive Kitteridge and My Name Is Lucy Barton is simply incredible - I instantly became her fan after reading them. But Amy & Isabelle left me quite underwhelmed.
I'm not really sure what it was: maybe the lack of force and conviction in the writing, maybe the overblown proportions of the story and the feeling it's making unneeded fuss and adding extra drama, but I just couldn't connect to the narrative in any way. It left me quite cold, quite often bored, and mostly unconvinced that this is the same Elizabeth Strout I love.
It's true that this was her first book, though. So I do appreciate it as her first stop to becoming the writer I love so much today.
I'm not really sure what it was: maybe the lack of force and conviction in the writing, maybe the overblown proportions of the story and the feeling it's making unneeded fuss and adding extra drama, but I just couldn't connect to the narrative in any way. It left me quite cold, quite often bored, and mostly unconvinced that this is the same Elizabeth Strout I love.
It's true that this was her first book, though. So I do appreciate it as her first stop to becoming the writer I love so much today.