A review by annamolpus
The Child's Child by Barbara Vine

2.0

This book features a "novel within a novel" wherein the protagonist "reads" - and therefore we read - an entire novel in the middle of the story. It's a clever idea, but I found the characters in the novel-within-the-novel pretty unlikeable and I wasn't prepared for how long it was. The outer/framing story ends up getting short shrift and is wrapped up far too hurriedly after spending SO MUCH time in the novel-within. She managed to keep me interested, and yet I couldn't really recommend this to others.