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zabacitanovine's review
1.0
I'm sad to say that reading this book was a chore. If I haven't received a free copy in exchange for a review, I would have DNFed it long before I even reached 15%. Every new chapter was a pain.
I just couldn't with the writing style, with the timeline, with the characters and their relationships, with whom we follow when, with the pace of the story, and with the plot.
This is not what I expected at all.
The book starts with Vivi who is looking for a new job. Then, we find out that her husband is dead. Then, she is having lunch with his parents in the present. Then he is alive again. Then we are year forward from the lunch. Then we start following characters who have just appeared and we have whole chapters dedicated to them out of nowhere!
Every single character in this book is so self-centered that I don't even get how they can talk to each other.
The relationship between Vivi and her husband is beyond sickening (for example, he had a moment like YOU lost OUR child, and now I'm leaving you here on your own to think about why I blame you while I go out to find another bitch to have an affair with). It is all beyond disgusting.
The guy she thinks she had a real connection with is this self-proclaimed "shaman" or whatever who just wants to get laid and so on.
Vivi feels sorry for herself all the time, but I'm not even sure what to say beyond that because I feel like I was too irritated with this book to even try to get to know her beyond her pitying.
As for the plot, I found myself wondering what the hell is going and when will things start to happen with well over half the book behind me. It was all just tooooooooo draining and I don't want to read anything even remotely similar to this ever again.
I'm really sorry, but this was just too painful and not. for me. AT ALL.
Big thanks to BooksGoSocial and NetGalley who provided me with a free copy in exchange for an honest review
I just couldn't with the writing style, with the timeline, with the characters and their relationships, with whom we follow when, with the pace of the story, and with the plot.
This is not what I expected at all.
The book starts with Vivi who is looking for a new job. Then, we find out that her husband is dead. Then, she is having lunch with his parents in the present. Then he is alive again. Then we are year forward from the lunch. Then we start following characters who have just appeared and we have whole chapters dedicated to them out of nowhere!
Every single character in this book is so self-centered that I don't even get how they can talk to each other.
The relationship between Vivi and her husband is beyond sickening (for example, he had a moment like YOU lost OUR child, and now I'm leaving you here on your own to think about why I blame you while I go out to find another bitch to have an affair with). It is all beyond disgusting.
The guy she thinks she had a real connection with is this self-proclaimed "shaman" or whatever who just wants to get laid and so on.
Vivi feels sorry for herself all the time, but I'm not even sure what to say beyond that because I feel like I was too irritated with this book to even try to get to know her beyond her pitying.
As for the plot, I found myself wondering what the hell is going and when will things start to happen with well over half the book behind me. It was all just tooooooooo draining and I don't want to read anything even remotely similar to this ever again.
I'm really sorry, but this was just too painful and not. for me. AT ALL.
Big thanks to BooksGoSocial and NetGalley who provided me with a free copy in exchange for an honest review
magicmerlia's review
2.0
Not what I expected.
from the title and the short description I expected a book about a spiritual journey with some supernatural and funny aspects. Instead this book reads like someone is trying to write their memoirs but they don't know where to start or where to end.
There were few aspects I liked about this book. The main aspect was that the main chracter was an older woman. I have not read a lot of books with an older main character and this was a nice change. I also really enjoyed Tara, one of the side characters. But overall I was a little disappointed in this book.
Books about how people deal with grief are very important. They let us know that we are not alone when we go through something like this. The reappearing subjects in this book are grief, loss, anger but also hope and moving on. It starts with Vivi moving to a new palce and fiding a new job. After that there a a few chapters that describe the life Vivi and her (now dead) husband had. After that the plot jumps around and there are a few chapters about other people in Vivis life. Every one of those characters also deals with grief and loss, but overall the plot was very inconsistent and I often had trouble following it. I also found myself hating a lot of the side chracters. The two men in her life do not seem like good people, yet Vivi stays with them.
I also think there should be a trigger warning about depression and almost rape (that's what went through my mind during the scene in Las Vegas)!
Sadly this book was not for me as it did not meet my expectations
from the title and the short description I expected a book about a spiritual journey with some supernatural and funny aspects. Instead this book reads like someone is trying to write their memoirs but they don't know where to start or where to end.
There were few aspects I liked about this book. The main aspect was that the main chracter was an older woman. I have not read a lot of books with an older main character and this was a nice change. I also really enjoyed Tara, one of the side characters. But overall I was a little disappointed in this book.
Books about how people deal with grief are very important. They let us know that we are not alone when we go through something like this. The reappearing subjects in this book are grief, loss, anger but also hope and moving on. It starts with Vivi moving to a new palce and fiding a new job. After that there a a few chapters that describe the life Vivi and her (now dead) husband had. After that the plot jumps around and there are a few chapters about other people in Vivis life. Every one of those characters also deals with grief and loss, but overall the plot was very inconsistent and I often had trouble following it. I also found myself hating a lot of the side chracters. The two men in her life do not seem like good people, yet Vivi stays with them.
I also think there should be a trigger warning about depression and almost rape (that's what went through my mind during the scene in Las Vegas)!
Sadly this book was not for me as it did not meet my expectations
rara2018's review
2.0
I struggled with reading this book. I felt like the premise was only loosely related to the actual plot of the book. I found the whole ghost thing in this book to be both overdone and underdone. When the ghost appeared, it was basically just a weird exaggeration of a person, but this happened so infrequently that I forgot that the ghost was supposed to be an important aspect of the story. I think I would have enjoyed the book more without any of the supernatural aspects, or with significantly more because it just seemed wishy-washy. I thought there were some interesting characters, but I often found that they were all kind of bad people. The characters I found more interesting and likable, such as Tara, were missing for large portions of the book which I think hurt the characterization of Vivi since so many people around her were kind of mean to her, or vice versa. The plot was jumpy and some characterizations seemed inconsistent. I thought parts of the book were much better than others, but I felt like I had to trudge through quite a bit of the book.
Thank you to NetGalley and BooksGoSocial for providing me with this ARC in exchange for an honest review.
Thank you to NetGalley and BooksGoSocial for providing me with this ARC in exchange for an honest review.
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