I was really torn between "did not like it" and "it was okay".This is the second book of Vandagriff that I have read. If I remember the author's story accurately she suffered a serious memory trauma (its been years since I read it sorry, and I'm too lazy/tired to look it up). I feel the horrible need to finish stories, I have to know how the story ends, I become the character so quickly into my reading I have to finish the journey. For these two reasons I kept reading. The author speaks with an almost Regency style which makes it hard to place the true setting. She describes people with Regency style describing her leading lady from an old country that her ancestors MANY MANY generations ago came from. It just felt odd. The story was one she had written twenty years prior and she tried to update it but the whole Regency style was difficult for me to fall into with this particular story line. This book focused a lot on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder which is something I don't know much about and find a little bit hard to understand. I've never known anyone to go through that. I read another book that had a character with that and it was so over the top I think it left me a bit of eye rolling. I read at the end that the author experienced some of this herself. I always appreciate books where you know the author really felt those emotions and literally left a piece of themselves in the book.
It took me awhile to get into this book. But in the end I enjoyed it even if it was a bit slow.
—hummerson_everdeen
I couldn't even finish this book. The writing was absolutely awful.
—Akinosay
Didn't care for the subject matter, so maybe a 2.5.
—macnchz98
Sad book. Kept reading to see how everything fit.
—lprindable
