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Book Review of The Memory Keeper's Daughter

The Memory Keeper's Daughter
reviewed Never. Thought. It. Would. End. on + 5 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2


I had such high hopes for it and it just... blah! If I could have read the book strictly from Caroline's point of view, I may have liked it better... but everything seemed to revolve around Norah. What an awful character. Yes, the loss of a child shapes a mother greatly... but Norah had NO redeeming qualities. I felt like David was much more of a victim, a victim of his own terrible actions, but those actions were truly in the best interest of Phoebe... And Paul! Another cruddy character. One of the worst books I've ever read, terribly long-winded, filled with people you couldn't care less about. This book could have been SO much better. I wanted to know more about Caroline and Phoebe's actual life, their struggles, their hopes and dreams, how they made it... As another reviewer commented, it is NOTHING like the synopsis on the back. There's no actual plot, no real storyline... just... blah. Page after page of "This has got to be better..." and then, bam! The End! Ick!