This was just a bad book, there is no other way around it. I literally said to a friend that it was getting exciting when I was at 90% completion. Everything before that had been a complete bore. The writing and the plot (or lack thereof) was completely wanting. And the ending was seriously awful...
Just an hour into Morning Labor, and already three people had told Cal about Frida’s “sweet pancake,” which sounded to him like the name of an unfortunate and sparsely attended burlesque act. Everyone had urged him to run over to the kitchen to try the cake before it was gone, but he didn’t. He h...
The tub, like all tubs in apartments worth living in, was grimy. She had scrubbed it many times but the porcelain remained gray and streaked with rust around the drain. She didn’t mind. She also kissed dogs on the mouth, didn’t wash her fruit. Let the squeamish suffer their fear, let them live wi...