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A review by tatyanavogt
Lakewood by Megan Giddings
3.0
This was pretty good. I did fall asleep while listening to it (I was just really tired) and woke up thinking that it wasn't that good but I went back and re-listened to the part I slept through and ended up really liking it.
I will admit that I wasn't blown away by the book, I wasn't overly moved and I wasn't super impressed by it. But it was interesting and I did like it. No big twists or turns, but still a fun ride. I was going to give it a 4 because I did like it, but when I really think to it I dont think its remarkable in any way, so I decided to be true to my rating and give it a 3. With my rating a 3 is a good thing. I did enjoy it.
Spoiler thoughts:
That scene with the blue eyes and the girl telling her to take off the contacts really got to me. It felt like a comment on colorism and white washing. It was sad to hear how much more attention she got for having such a white feature like blue eyes and even more sad that she also got extreme hate for it from the women.
I will admit when she first went to lakewood and mentioned the name to her mother and her mother reacted funny I knew then that her mother had done it too years before. I also figured it might have something to do with her health, but I didn't think too much about it. So it was nice to get the confirmation at the end.
It was also really interesting to see how she was loosing herself and becoming unreliable. Forgetting things, and then second guessing stuff. I wonder if like that woman she also killed people based off of that memory of her being at the place with the white woman and having a gun in her purse along with a list of names but not remembering anything else.
I do feel like I missed some stuff by listening to the audiobook and I wish I could flip through a physical copy to see if I actually missed anything or if that was just how the book is because of the topic.
But yeah, it was pretty cool.
I will admit that I wasn't blown away by the book, I wasn't overly moved and I wasn't super impressed by it. But it was interesting and I did like it. No big twists or turns, but still a fun ride. I was going to give it a 4 because I did like it, but when I really think to it I dont think its remarkable in any way, so I decided to be true to my rating and give it a 3. With my rating a 3 is a good thing. I did enjoy it.
Spoiler thoughts:
Spoiler
That scene with the blue eyes and the girl telling her to take off the contacts really got to me. It felt like a comment on colorism and white washing. It was sad to hear how much more attention she got for having such a white feature like blue eyes and even more sad that she also got extreme hate for it from the women.
I will admit when she first went to lakewood and mentioned the name to her mother and her mother reacted funny I knew then that her mother had done it too years before. I also figured it might have something to do with her health, but I didn't think too much about it. So it was nice to get the confirmation at the end.
It was also really interesting to see how she was loosing herself and becoming unreliable. Forgetting things, and then second guessing stuff. I wonder if like that woman she also killed people based off of that memory of her being at the place with the white woman and having a gun in her purse along with a list of names but not remembering anything else.
I do feel like I missed some stuff by listening to the audiobook and I wish I could flip through a physical copy to see if I actually missed anything or if that was just how the book is because of the topic.
But yeah, it was pretty cool.