My main hang ups:

- People said it was riveting, it wasn’t. Was it a good book? Sure.

- I thought that Finch spoke well beyond her years - especially for an 8 year old with zero formal education and only books and with the way Cooper talks, it didn’t make sense to me. Even though she read literature, I would think that with how Cooper talks, she would have copied his speech patterns by example. 

- I kind of expected it to move a little faster since it was a shorter book

- You kind of need to suspend disbelief for this to work - especially with all of the news papers that had photos and information on Cooper. Obviously at least one person recognized Cooper within the 8 years he had been around but you’re telling me that same person didn’t recognize him later on? 

- The ending was just too convenient and I’m not sure I can really buy into it. Make it make sense 

- That epilogue?? How? Especially with what happened at the end, how did Finch go to high school and college? Don’t buy the forgiveness either. Those grandparents give me Emily and Richard Gilmore vibes, but would’ve liked to actually see how that happened.