A review by missyjohnson
Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver

1.0

this book was a disappointment and a struggle to finish. I did not find the characters developed at all and it was frustrating to try to understand why they even said or did the things that they did. I had a difficult time understanding that if the house was sooooo poorly built and was a shambles, how it had actually stood for 130 years. Why was this a surprise? nothing meshed. Iano was a cardboard cut-out, Zeke was a shallow uninteresting blob, Willa was an ostrich, Tig was the most interesting but still not clearly fleshed out. aaaarrrrrggggg. The Mary Treat sections were ok but the focus on Thatcher was a bore. it seemed as if there was an attempt to cram a ton of history into the story without focus. Mary Treat, Darwin, murder, current political climate mirrored by Landis, suffrage, etc. all in all a sad time spent with this book. I keep hoping that there will be a Poisonwood Bible level offering from Ms. Kingsolver but have not found it so much in the books of hers that I have read.