emvdw's Reviews (341)

A page-turner in true King fashion...
I really enjoyed this one! It's not often you

get a crazy scientist character that is a nutritionist...

Also, I wasn't really expecting the heart-warming found family vibes, but it they were great :)

The language is very beautiful and Lucy's story is interesting. I thought the jumping between the two stories (the story of her life and of her coming out) would have been confusing, but it wasn't. 

The author narrates the book, and I think going with a professional narrator might have been a better choice. She tends to give all her sentences the same cadence, which started to grate on me after a couple of hours. 

Overall I'm guessing this isn't going to be very memorable for me. 

Almost any book with this premise would probably leave an impression: all eyewitness stories are either heartbreaking, inspiring or both. But this book somehow rides even above it's premise. It's never confusing, despite containing a seemingly endless amount of characters, a painstaking reconstruction of the day it happened. I particularly liked the few passages where you get these repititions of observations that run through multiple accounts: the clear blue day, the silence after the collapse,....