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A review by melbsreads
Return to Sender by Julie Cross
3.0
Trigger warnings: death of a parent (in the past), mental health
I really enjoyed the first book in this series, so much so that I bought the novella sequels as soon as I finished it. And then promptly forgot all about them... So they've been languishing in the depths of my Kindle for literally years. But what better time than New Year's Eve to polish off a bunch of novellas?
This...was fine? Ish?? Like, it's a novella, so it was never going to be a particularly well fleshed out addition to the story. And there were parts of it that I enjoyed, like Karen having to go back and face cleaning out her parents' possessions. But this basically just ended in the middle of nowhere, and as a result it didn't feel like a complete story that could stand on its own. It felt like half a story. And I don't really understand why Cross didn't hold off and combine this with the next one to make a proper sequel rather than two novella sequels...
But whatever. It was fine. The end.
I really enjoyed the first book in this series, so much so that I bought the novella sequels as soon as I finished it. And then promptly forgot all about them... So they've been languishing in the depths of my Kindle for literally years. But what better time than New Year's Eve to polish off a bunch of novellas?
This...was fine? Ish?? Like, it's a novella, so it was never going to be a particularly well fleshed out addition to the story. And there were parts of it that I enjoyed, like Karen having to go back and face cleaning out her parents' possessions. But this basically just ended in the middle of nowhere, and as a result it didn't feel like a complete story that could stand on its own. It felt like half a story. And I don't really understand why Cross didn't hold off and combine this with the next one to make a proper sequel rather than two novella sequels...
But whatever. It was fine. The end.