Victoria (YSB) - reviewed on 2/24/2010 + 636 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 2

I have mixed feelings about this book. On the one hand, it was very well-written, with fairly smooth transitions between several different formats of the story and various perspectives. And the premise was so hooking, but I guess my main problem was that the book went a direction that I had not expected. I kept thinking that it would be more about Rebecca's childhood, the shoebox... I really expected more closure on that storyline. And I did not think that her relationship with Joe would or Adam would turn out the way that they did. I just wanted something more. Though I did think that the grief, which was the main theme of the entire book, was very well done. I guess I mostly just wanted this to be a different type of book altogether - one that was less about Style and Structure, and more about Story.

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