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3.85 AVERAGE
3.85 AVERAGE
I really love her writing. I wasn't a HUGE fan of the plot "twist" in this book, but the characters are so real and lovely, and her books are surprising.
I liked this book quite a bit. That being said, I don't have any desire to read it's precursor with some of the same characters. I LOVE stories about interwoven relationships and this met the mark, but at the end I kind of went- WOMP WOMP. Oh well, I did enjoy it quite a bit & the audiobook was nice.
Well written. Funny. Heartfelt. Kept me wanting to read more. An excellent summer read.
This book, and the previous one, Love Walked In, remind me a lot of the Mitford series by Jan Karon - likeable characters who face life's challenges with grace. I would love for the author to write more about Cornelia, Teo, Clare, et al, but I'm not sure what more there is to say. But that's why I'm not an author!
I enjoyed this book a lot. For most of the book I didn't really know where the author was going with it and I just went along for the ride. I'm glad that I did.
This picked up about 2/3 of the way through. Was slow moving for most of the book.
I loved this book so much! I loved the writing style, the characters, the complications, and the changes.
I give this 4 stars as an entertaining, quick read, not as a great literary work. Highly recommended for a plane trip or the beach.
Belong to Me is a fictional story following three main characters: Cornelia, who just moved to town for her husband’s job; Dev, a thirteen-year-old who moved to town with his mom so he can attend a school for the gifted; and Piper, a snotty housewife who is dealing with her best friend’s cancer.
I picked this book to read because I read de los Santos’s other book Love Walked In. I adored that book, so I figured that I would give this book a shot. I didn’t realize that it follows the same main character, Cornelia. It has some of the other characters too, as well as a lot of new characters. I wouldn’t necessarily call it a sequel though. You could read this book without reading Love Walked In. There was one big event that happened in Love Walked In—that Cornelia is married to her sister’s ex-husband—that was conveniently left out of this book. I thought it was weird that it was never even mentioned, especially because it was a main part of the last book. Between the two, I liked the story of Love Walked In much better. I would have preferred the whole story to be about Teo, Cornelia, and Clare, and not all the new characters, but I guess that would have taken a lot away from the story.
Cornelia’s chapters are told in first-person, but the other two characters’ stories are told in third-person. I am not sure why the author did that, but I would have preferred all in either third-person or first, not a mixture. I honestly could have done without Dev and his mother’s story. I forgot about them most of the time. All the chapters were really long, so I felt like it was a long time before Dev was mentioned again. I understand his purpose in the story, but I didn’t find it as compelling as the other storylines. I also think that de los Santos put him in there because she really enjoys having adult-like children as main characters.
To read the rest of my review, go here: http://judgingmorethanjustthecover.blogspot.com/2015/04/belong-to-me-marisa-de-los-santos.html
I picked this book to read because I read de los Santos’s other book Love Walked In. I adored that book, so I figured that I would give this book a shot. I didn’t realize that it follows the same main character, Cornelia. It has some of the other characters too, as well as a lot of new characters. I wouldn’t necessarily call it a sequel though. You could read this book without reading Love Walked In. There was one big event that happened in Love Walked In—that Cornelia is married to her sister’s ex-husband—that was conveniently left out of this book. I thought it was weird that it was never even mentioned, especially because it was a main part of the last book. Between the two, I liked the story of Love Walked In much better. I would have preferred the whole story to be about Teo, Cornelia, and Clare, and not all the new characters, but I guess that would have taken a lot away from the story.
Cornelia’s chapters are told in first-person, but the other two characters’ stories are told in third-person. I am not sure why the author did that, but I would have preferred all in either third-person or first, not a mixture. I honestly could have done without Dev and his mother’s story. I forgot about them most of the time. All the chapters were really long, so I felt like it was a long time before Dev was mentioned again. I understand his purpose in the story, but I didn’t find it as compelling as the other storylines. I also think that de los Santos put him in there because she really enjoys having adult-like children as main characters.
To read the rest of my review, go here: http://judgingmorethanjustthecover.blogspot.com/2015/04/belong-to-me-marisa-de-los-santos.html