I keep hearing great things about this book, but it didn’t do it for me. It felt a bit disjointed, lacking focus. So I’ll tell you what this book is actually about. It tries to focus on a mother, who’s stronger than any one gives her credit for (even herself). She’s holding everything together, just barely. She’s a hero, a fighter, a mom, a “bad” wife, and a leader. But the culture doesn’t want her to be any of those things.
First the good things: 1) there are some beautiful scenes where I really feel for the protagonist. To be in relationship where both people assume too much and hurt each other without knowing.
2) there’s a couple of extended fight scenes I wish I could see in a movie. I felt the struggle and pain with these. Very well written.
3) the characters felt real, unlikable and likable at the same time
4) the narrator was really good, I always speed up to 1.25 and she still sounds really nice.
What I didn’t like:
This was a very disjointed story.
I felt misled as to what the story was about, I guess. It kept me guessing in a bad way most of the book. Halfway through I’m questioning the entire subject of the story,
I also felt like the ending would be better if it stopped 3/4 of the way or went another 100 pages beyond the actual ending. Knowing there’s isn’t and won’t be a sequel doesn’t makes it worse.
I don’t know, I think it’s just me. Give it a shot for an interesting fmc and fun fight scenes.