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A review by raebrock
Anna by Sammy H.K. Smith
2.0
Ugh this is the second book this month that I could barely bring myself to finish. The first half was more brutal than I would’ve liked but there are women out there who’ve experienced much worse so do with that what you will.
There was no segue at all into the second half, it felt like reading a completely different book and it was so mind-numbingly dull. A lot of new characters are introduced but honestly none of them have any personality and I could not distinguish one from the other apart from their names which I’ve already forgotten.
Spoiler coming up although I feel like it’s to be expected: bad stuff finds her again. The two halves of the story come together - but only kind of, and a lot is never resolved or explained at all.
None of the characters had much substance, not even the protagonists. The plot was never fully flushed out, the flashbacks to her life before with her husband didn’t really give us much which made them feel pointless, and overall there were just too many things that didn’t work. I don’t know, the premise had potential but I hated the way it was executed.
There was no segue at all into the second half, it felt like reading a completely different book and it was so mind-numbingly dull. A lot of new characters are introduced but honestly none of them have any personality and I could not distinguish one from the other apart from their names which I’ve already forgotten.
Spoiler coming up although I feel like it’s to be expected: bad stuff finds her again. The two halves of the story come together - but only kind of, and a lot is never resolved or explained at all.
None of the characters had much substance, not even the protagonists. The plot was never fully flushed out, the flashbacks to her life before with her husband didn’t really give us much which made them feel pointless, and overall there were just too many things that didn’t work. I don’t know, the premise had potential but I hated the way it was executed.