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A review by bookph1le
The Marriage Pact by Michelle Richmond
2.0
This book was seriously, seriously weird, as was my reading experience with it. On the one hand, I never really liked the main character as I found him obnoxious, pedantic, and emitting a faint whiff of undeserved superiority. Yet something about the book's chatty narrative style drew me in.
I guess you could say this book is a meditation on marriage and its challenges, ups, and downs. I felt like the cult-like Pact that the characters belong to was a framing device for these meditations on marriage. It's a really weird device, though. It was hard to suspend my disbelief at times, since the cult-like Pact is just so weird, but then I didn't think the book was all that far-fetched given the weirdness of cults that have actually existed.
In the end, I don't even know what to make of this book. It was suspenseful, trying to figure out what was going to happen with the Pact, but it was also oddly detached. I didn't dislike the book, but I don't think I really like it either.
I guess you could say this book is a meditation on marriage and its challenges, ups, and downs. I felt like the cult-like Pact that the characters belong to was a framing device for these meditations on marriage. It's a really weird device, though. It was hard to suspend my disbelief at times, since the cult-like Pact is just so weird, but then I didn't think the book was all that far-fetched given the weirdness of cults that have actually existed.
In the end, I don't even know what to make of this book. It was suspenseful, trying to figure out what was going to happen with the Pact, but it was also oddly detached. I didn't dislike the book, but I don't think I really like it either.