It isn't that this is a bad book, nor is it an uninteresting story, something seemed wrong with this somehow? I love how it's formatted- in diary like segments that you work through with Michael, and you do see character growth in him and in some ways I like that we get the information slowly, which shows his unwillingness to move on from his late wife's death and his disinterest in counselling and perhaps how tortured he feels by his self-prescribed guilt. This is good, it's amazing, however I really struggled to delve into this book. I found I didn't truly care that much about Michael, I'm not sure he's meant to be a particularly likeable character but one that you have to have empathy and throughout the book see him develop but the first half of this is very sllooowwwww and the second half just doesn't make it up to me and I'm not sure I would recommend it because of that.
Although all opinions in this review are my own, thank you to Atlantic Books and Readers First for an advance copy of this book.
Although all opinions in this review are my own, thank you to Atlantic Books and Readers First for an advance copy of this book.