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simonlorden 's review for:
The Father She Went to Find
by Carter Wilson
emotional
mysterious
fast-paced
I received an ARC through NetGalley.
Penny fell down the stairs when she was seven years old, and since that day, she remembers everything in perfect detail. The thing is, she doesn't remember anything before that. She has no memories of her father, because he left while she was in the hospital, and he only ever sends her one postcard a year on her birthday.
The truth is that I don't really feel much about this book. The chapters, the sentences and the individual lines are all very short, so there is much less content than you'd expect from the number of pages. I'm sure that was supposed to make the book fast-paced, but it just made it all feel kind of choppy. The side characters are kind of forgettable, while Penny herself is very sheltered and makes a lot of stupid decisions which is frustrating to read.
Penny's mother is also emotionally abusive, which kind of doesn't make sense in light of the ending, but I suppose trauma does weird things to people.
Overall, I finished this book because I was curious what would happen, but I don't think it will stay with me.
Penny fell down the stairs when she was seven years old, and since that day, she remembers everything in perfect detail. The thing is, she doesn't remember anything before that. She has no memories of her father, because he left while she was in the hospital, and he only ever sends her one postcard a year on her birthday.
The truth is that I don't really feel much about this book. The chapters, the sentences and the individual lines are all very short, so there is much less content than you'd expect from the number of pages. I'm sure that was supposed to make the book fast-paced, but it just made it all feel kind of choppy. The side characters are kind of forgettable, while Penny herself is very sheltered and makes a lot of stupid decisions which is frustrating to read.
Penny's mother is also emotionally abusive, which kind of doesn't make sense in light of the ending, but I suppose trauma does weird things to people.
Overall, I finished this book because I was curious what would happen, but I don't think it will stay with me.