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A review by lake
Tell Us We're Home by Marina Budhos
2.0
This book was off very much. It was a decent read, but it was not tasty, and I found myself rather disappointed. I had heard of the book somewhere else and had seen it with a better cover and summary, which intrigued me. It was a big disappointment.
The characters are unlikable, bratty, and ungrateful, especially Lola and Maria. Basic overused plot pieces I've read before: old lady ends up in hospital, distant relative comes to check out her stuff and he doesn't know a thing about her. A parent has died from sickness. People are unwelcome, disputes occur, girl meets boy, mean discriminating girl, etc. The beginning and middle of the book was rather drab and slowly paced. Towards the end the book is better paced, but still unsatisfying. I did like the different personalities of the many characters involved in this book, major and minor, but Lola was a bit overdramatic and anticlimactic. I liked her relationship, or lack thereof, with Anthony. At the end of the book there was no kissing, which was different form the usual cliches of young adult literature.
I say young adult because even if this was categorized under "child" in my nearest library, there are several moments at which there is violence, abuse, cursing (the b---- word), etc. All in all, this book was too emotional for me or anyone else. I've read unpublished works that are better. Forgive me if I sound too snooty, but this was just...too much. It was boring and the attempts to make it actually entertaining were unsuccessful.
The characters are unlikable, bratty, and ungrateful, especially Lola and Maria. Basic overused plot pieces I've read before: old lady ends up in hospital, distant relative comes to check out her stuff and he doesn't know a thing about her. A parent has died from sickness. People are unwelcome, disputes occur, girl meets boy, mean discriminating girl, etc. The beginning and middle of the book was rather drab and slowly paced. Towards the end the book is better paced, but still unsatisfying. I did like the different personalities of the many characters involved in this book, major and minor, but Lola was a bit overdramatic and anticlimactic. I liked her relationship, or lack thereof, with Anthony. At the end of the book there was no kissing, which was different form the usual cliches of young adult literature.
I say young adult because even if this was categorized under "child" in my nearest library, there are several moments at which there is violence, abuse, cursing (the b---- word), etc. All in all, this book was too emotional for me or anyone else. I've read unpublished works that are better. Forgive me if I sound too snooty, but this was just...too much. It was boring and the attempts to make it actually entertaining were unsuccessful.