
Review - Ann Brashares' writing reminds me of a python. Stay with me and I will explain, they are beautiful and somewhat mesmerising but you can never really get a good grasp on them. Despite the delicate prose and the interesting premise, I always felt the disconnect with the characters. I didn't care about them. I didn't even feel that they truly cared about one another. I felt a little sadness at their predicaments but I was completely removed from the events of their lives.
Paul, is a character, to whom I never saw the attraction. Riley was supposed to be best friends with Paul but I failed to see any evidence of that other than being a convenient plot contrivance. Alice, well she likes to play the passive martyr. I liked the Traveling Pants but I saw glimpses of the removedness that seems so much more prolific in this novel. it was just a little too blah. I expected (and wanted) better.


Published: 2007
Format: Paperback , 306 pages
Publisher: Griffin Press (Aust.)
Origin: USA
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