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lori_loves_reading's review against another edition
1.0
What the…? Not a fan of this book at all. Only finished it because it was so short. I didn’t like her writing style, had a hard time figuring out who was talking. And the ending, really?!
srogan88's review
3.0
This is a book I picked up based on the cover catching my eye at a used bookstore. The spine is rainbow-striped so it really stands out. The teaser says it's about a reporter who comes home burnt out from reporting about the war to find his best friend's sister is suffering from "hysterical amnesia" after witnessing the death of her husband and four children. It sounded interesting so I picked it up.
And it WAS interesting, but it fell short of its potential. The pieces never came together coherently for me. There were secondary bits that seemed to never pay off so probably could've been cut altogether. I don't need things explained in great detail but I found myself completely confused by some of those secondary bits. For example, there's a totally minor plot about two people named Sydney getting married, one of whom has gotten breast implants, and until the last 20 pages I was convinced it was two women. Which is fine, but it wasn't clear.
I understand that the main character, Holden, is supposed to be motivated by his burnout and what he's gone through covering the war, but his actions in the last third of the book in regards to Melanie (the amnesiac sister) seem really implausible and bizarre. To me, that means either the author didn't do a good enough job convincing me or I wasn't the right audience for this book.
And it WAS interesting, but it fell short of its potential. The pieces never came together coherently for me. There were secondary bits that seemed to never pay off so probably could've been cut altogether. I don't need things explained in great detail but I found myself completely confused by some of those secondary bits. For example, there's a totally minor plot about two people named Sydney getting married, one of whom has gotten breast implants, and until the last 20 pages I was convinced it was two women. Which is fine, but it wasn't clear.
I understand that the main character, Holden, is supposed to be motivated by his burnout and what he's gone through covering the war, but his actions in the last third of the book in regards to Melanie (the amnesiac sister) seem really implausible and bizarre. To me, that means either the author didn't do a good enough job convincing me or I wasn't the right audience for this book.
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