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timna_wyckoff's review against another edition
4.0
Follows two sisters over several decades. Interesting but not quite as deep/moving as Three Junes.
summerluvn78's review against another edition
2.0
I really tried with this book. I just couldn't stay engaged. I had to force myself to read it, and re read it.
laila4343's review against another edition
3.0
Well, I haven't read Three Junes yet, but I loved her second novel The Whole World Over. This one was... okay. The characters got on my nerves, especially Clem, and then some sad things happen. It definitely became more compelling towards the end. I like Julia Glass's style of writing, though. So I will definitely read more of her work.
shirleytupperfreeman's review against another edition
Not my favorite. I didn't find the characters sympathetic at all. Too self-absorbed.
taheera's review against another edition
2.0
Didn't like the switching of who was writing the narrative. It just seemed to go on and on.Never really go to know the characters even then. The stories ended so abruptly.
sidnarwhal's review against another edition
2.0
Although this book started out beautifully, with the perfect blend of melancholy, color and emotion, by the end of the book, it was washed out and dry. Disappointing.
katzreads's review against another edition
4.0
Really compelling characters and interesting point of view (alternates between two sisters).
jacki_f's review against another edition
2.0
"I see you everywhere" is a story about two sisters, Louisa and Clem. Born three years apart, they are very different and have a complex relationship: irritated by one another but also strongly connected, turning to each other whenever they have crises in their lives. They take turns narrating the story and sometimes it's not clear for a while which sister is talking, although in time it settles to alternate by chapter.
The book spans 13 years, from 1980 through to 1993, with a final chapter set in 2005. Essentially it's a series of disjointed snapshots from the sisters' lives. I found it disconcerting that something momentous could happen in one chapter (a relationship foundering, a head injury causing amnesia), which barely if ever gets referred to again.
I really liked Glass's first novel, "Three Junes", but I was very disappointed by this book. It is a novel which is character driven not plot driven. Unfortunately the characters just aren't very sympathetic or involving. For the most part, I didn't care about any of them. In fact, I actively disliked them (with the exception of an elderly aunt who dies at the start of the book). Having said that, there is a significant event which takes place towards the end of the book (I don't want to give anything away here as it came as a major surprise to me), which made me realise that I cared more about these characters than I had previously thought.
I strongly considered giving up on this book at the 100 page mark, but I persevered. I kept hoping that it would get better and it did improve, but not enough for me to recommend it.
The book spans 13 years, from 1980 through to 1993, with a final chapter set in 2005. Essentially it's a series of disjointed snapshots from the sisters' lives. I found it disconcerting that something momentous could happen in one chapter (a relationship foundering, a head injury causing amnesia), which barely if ever gets referred to again.
I really liked Glass's first novel, "Three Junes", but I was very disappointed by this book. It is a novel which is character driven not plot driven. Unfortunately the characters just aren't very sympathetic or involving. For the most part, I didn't care about any of them. In fact, I actively disliked them (with the exception of an elderly aunt who dies at the start of the book). Having said that, there is a significant event which takes place towards the end of the book (I don't want to give anything away here as it came as a major surprise to me), which made me realise that I cared more about these characters than I had previously thought.
I strongly considered giving up on this book at the 100 page mark, but I persevered. I kept hoping that it would get better and it did improve, but not enough for me to recommend it.
asurges's review against another edition
4.0
I'm just going to cut Julia Glass some slack: nothing will ever equal "Three Junes," which is one of my top-ten all-time favorites. However, in this book--which is about two sisters--she employs her standard easy use of language; her characters talk like characters, not like an idea of what she wishes they could sound like. The banter between the sisters--and the animosity--is so well done that she explores the sibling relationship but mostly from the angle of how we think we know the people in our families and how we think they belong to us in a way, but they don't. There are parts of them we just, quite simply, will never know.