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ninetalevixen 's review for:
A Year and a Day
by Isabelle Broom
I wanted to put 2.5 stars, but as I wrote this review I found it hard to talk myself into it.
There's nothing dramatically wrong with this book, per se; mostly I just felt like it wasn't enough — I didn't feel anything for any of it. Too much telling instead of showing (particularly disappointing since I'm sure Prague is gorgeous and bursting with life and culture; I also found it difficult to follow the POV characters' thought process at times), barely-distinguished characters (halfway through, I was still getting the three mains mixed up), drama for the sake of drama (it really just felt like Megan in particular was just making life hard for herself, and Hope to some extent too), and the twists were either too predictable or didn't make logical sense.
Also, I didn't realize when I picked this up that it was chick-lit romance. For fans of that genre, it's probably a great read, but for me it lacked substance. The endgame is finding your other half, romantically of course, and the female friendship I was looking forward to was upstaged.
On the bright side, I've now completed my 2018 POPSUGAR reading challenge!
There's nothing dramatically wrong with this book, per se; mostly I just felt like it wasn't enough — I didn't feel anything for any of it. Too much telling instead of showing (particularly disappointing since I'm sure Prague is gorgeous and bursting with life and culture; I also found it difficult to follow the POV characters' thought process at times), barely-distinguished characters (halfway through, I was still getting the three mains mixed up), drama for the sake of drama (it really just felt like Megan in particular was just making life hard for herself, and Hope to some extent too), and the twists were either too predictable or didn't make logical sense.
Also, I didn't realize when I picked this up that it was chick-lit romance. For fans of that genre, it's probably a great read, but for me it lacked substance. The endgame is finding your other half, romantically of course, and the female friendship I was looking forward to was upstaged.
On the bright side, I've now completed my 2018 POPSUGAR reading challenge!