Unfortunately this book just wasn't for me. Plenty of people have given it great reviews so it may suit others but I didn't really get it and found it quite dire.
Our Country Friends is set during the early days of the Covid 19 pandemic, and progresses to cover a large period of 2020. During it, author and landowner Senderkovsky invites some of his friends to stay on his land where he has a number of bungalows they can use. However, that is pretty much all that happens. We follow a handful of conversations the visitors have and whilst the book was already fairly short I found it could have been cut to about a quarter of the length and still be long enough to cover everything that happens.
I wanted to give up on the book but battled through so that I could give it a fair review. Overall, I didn't really feel like I understood what was going on most of the time as it just rambled and switched between characters with no obvious flow. I also wasn't sure whether the current plot point was actually happen or in the character's head.
Overall, I felt like nothing happened in this book and it was just a long ramble, but I think I just didn't get it and it could suit other readers better.
Our Country Friends is set during the early days of the Covid 19 pandemic, and progresses to cover a large period of 2020. During it, author and landowner Senderkovsky invites some of his friends to stay on his land where he has a number of bungalows they can use. However, that is pretty much all that happens. We follow a handful of conversations the visitors have and whilst the book was already fairly short I found it could have been cut to about a quarter of the length and still be long enough to cover everything that happens.
I wanted to give up on the book but battled through so that I could give it a fair review. Overall, I didn't really feel like I understood what was going on most of the time as it just rambled and switched between characters with no obvious flow. I also wasn't sure whether the current plot point was actually happen or in the character's head.
Overall, I felt like nothing happened in this book and it was just a long ramble, but I think I just didn't get it and it could suit other readers better.