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Book Review of Midwives

Midwives
Midwives
Author: Chris Bohjalian
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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Read for a TBR Potluck in my online book club, The Reading Cove. I was glad to finally get this out of the TBR pile, but the writing style was haphazard and disappointing. It jumped around on the timeline of Sibyl's midwife trial, told from her daughter Connie's point-of-view as an adult who was 14 at the time. The constant back & forth from future to past made me lose interest. Meant to tease the reader? It only bored me when it would jump back into the past events when we already know so much about what happens in the future. Disappointed.