Kendra's review
The Almost Moon
by Alice Sebold
You know that I now have to find page 44, just to see it.
I wasn't thrilled with The Lovely Bones and so I never quite got tempted to pick this up. But it makes me wonder why she put something like this out. It can't have been that she had to rush out a book, because it's been a long time since the last one.
Wasn't it just awful? I actually shudder when I think of reading this book.
I found myself staring this book in the face earlier this week. I remembered to check page 44. (I can't remember what I came into the grocery store for, but somehow I remembered that page number.) And I think someone should take her computer away. I still feel like I need to scrub it out of my mind days later.
This book was a complete and utter disappointment.. I kept reading it in the hope it would redeem itself but no its crap the whole way through!!
Kendra's review
The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold
Kendra's review
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I wanted to believe that the backlash against this book could be explained by general disappointment about Sebold's second novel not living up to The Lovely Bones. Um, yeah. Not only did it not measure up, but I don't even want this book in the same ROOM with my other books. It really and truly is that bad. I tried, people. I tried. But when I spent 4 hours on a plane learning how to do Sodoku just so I wouldn't have to read one more heinous word of this novel, I knew that I was going to have to throw in the towel and say some terrible things about Sebold's latest effort.
We all know she can write. Even when her words are polluting my air, it's obvious she can write. Why she chose to write such complete and utter crap this time is just beyond me. The entire book centers around Helen killing her mother. And, you know, that could have been an interesting theme to run with, but Sebold just mangled and butchered it instead. I suspect that maybe I was supposed to...more
We all know she can write. Even when her words are polluting my air, it's obvious she can write. Why she chose to write such complete and utter crap this time is just beyond me. The entire book centers around Helen killing her mother. And, you know, that could have been an interesting theme to run with, but Sebold just mangled and butchered it instead. I suspect that maybe I was supposed to...more
You know that I now have to find page 44, just to see it. I wasn't thrilled with The Lovely Bones and so I never quite got tempted to pick this up. But it makes me wonder why she put something like this out. It can't have been that she had to rush out a book, because it's been a long time since the last one.
Wasn't it just awful? I actually shudder when I think of reading this book.
I found myself staring this book in the face earlier this week. I remembered to check page 44. (I can't remember what I came into the grocery store for, but somehow I remembered that page number.) And I think someone should take her computer away. I still feel like I need to scrub it out of my mind days later.
This book was a complete and utter disappointment.. I kept reading it in the hope it would redeem itself but no its crap the whole way through!!