Kathleen Anne Kenney
Autore di Girl on the Leeside: A Novel
Opere di Kathleen Anne Kenney
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- Opere
- 1
- Utenti
- 33
- Popolarità
- #421,955
- Voto
- 3.2
- Recensioni
- 2
- ISBN
- 5
It revolves mainly around 27-year-old Siobhan and her Uncle Kee as they live and work in their pub, the Leeside, in a quiet little Irish village. I mean, that's basically it.
I didn't feel Siobhan, the main character, was all that interesting. A 27-year-old with the book-intelligence of a scholar and the social intelligence of a primary school student. Though the author freely admits this characteristic of Siobhan, that's she's too naive and too young for her actual age, it was just not an interesting premise. More frustrating, than anything.
I was frustrated because of the below spoilers:
[I felt that the sexual assault in the beginning was totally gratuitous. Mentioned once in passing and then never again, for what? To make Siobhan more three dimensional, more relatable? It was random to me and felt unjustified. She was naive and basically clueless without that happening to her, so why throw that in? For what purpose?
Then she falls in love with an American professor that she met once? That's fine, but I'd have appreciated the author developing the relationship a little bit more. I get that somehow she completely avoided/suppressed/never had romantic relationships and feelings for twenty-seven years due to her circumstances, but it was just all too not-real for me. She 'loved' Tim because he loved poetry as much as she did. And he waxed poetic about her because of her innocence. Come on.
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Anyway, yes, this was not my cup of tea. Though the cover is indeed gorgeous and dreamy, what was on the inside, unfortunately, was not.
Thank you to the author, the publishers and Netgalley for the opportunity to read this book in advance.… (altro)