Wonderful family story with believable characters
I am so glad that I chose this book from Bookish First. It was everything I wanted it to be.
There is a lot going on with the Brennan family, but it is all believable. The characters make some bad decisions and keep some secrets, but their reasoning is understandable. One of the things I loved about this novel is how realistic the characters were. They made decisions based on information they were given, but of course the information wasn't always complete. They judged other people's behavior based on what they believed the situation to be, but when you hear the other person's perspective you are reminded that you should always give people the benefit of the doubt.
This book is told from several different perspectives. Your opinion of each character shifts slightly as you see the story from their viewpoint. I thought this was very well done and was a perfect example of how to use varying points of view to benefit a story. I loved that the last line from one person's perspective would be repeated as the first line of the next person's perspective. This gave a really cool sense of the shifting view and made it feel that what each person was telling you was the truth.
I enjoyed this so much and look forward to reading more of Lange's writing in the future.
There is a lot going on with the Brennan family, but it is all believable. The characters make some bad decisions and keep some secrets, but their reasoning is understandable. One of the things I loved about this novel is how realistic the characters were. They made decisions based on information they were given, but of course the information wasn't always complete. They judged other people's behavior based on what they believed the situation to be, but when you hear the other person's perspective you are reminded that you should always give people the benefit of the doubt.
This book is told from several different perspectives. Your opinion of each character shifts slightly as you see the story from their viewpoint. I thought this was very well done and was a perfect example of how to use varying points of view to benefit a story. I loved that the last line from one person's perspective would be repeated as the first line of the next person's perspective. This gave a really cool sense of the shifting view and made it feel that what each person was telling you was the truth.
I enjoyed this so much and look forward to reading more of Lange's writing in the future.