Sarah Gilmartin
Auteur de Dinner Party
Œuvres de Sarah Gilmartin
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I had a hard time maintaining interest in this novel. It started out great with a chapter about Kate and her twin Eileen in the 1990s before Eileen passed away. The story then shifted to the present with the dinner that Kate hosted in Eileen's memory.
The characters were dull. I felt no attachment to any of them. Kate's mother could have been a wonderful villain. Mom was self-centered and was constantly criticizing her kids. While she gave them the best she could afford, Mom was physically and emotionally abusive.
The story is told from Kate's perspective. The reader slowly understands that she has an eating disorder. If this would be a trigger for you then you will want to avoid Dinner Party. The plot premise is a good one and if the book was written entirely in the present it could have been fantastic. It's slow pace is not helpful for the reader either.
Dinner Party was a miss for me.… (plus d'informations)
The characters were dull. I felt no attachment to any of them. Kate's mother could have been a wonderful villain. Mom was self-centered and was constantly criticizing her kids. While she gave them the best she could afford, Mom was physically and emotionally abusive.
The story is told from Kate's perspective. The reader slowly understands that she has an eating disorder. If this would be a trigger for you then you will want to avoid Dinner Party. The plot premise is a good one and if the book was written entirely in the present it could have been fantastic. It's slow pace is not helpful for the reader either.
Dinner Party was a miss for me.… (plus d'informations)
This book was challenging for me to read primarily because of the slow tempo and the chapters' tendency to veer between the past and present. I could not connect with any of the characters, although I tried. This was a DNF for me unfortunately.
Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for the chance to read and review this book.
Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for the chance to read and review this book.
This is a competent enough but somewhat lacklustre debut about the impact of the tragic death of one twin on the less shiny sister left behind. It's also a study of a controlling and volatile mother's destructive hold on her children, The book was solid enough to complete, but overall I think it could have been pared down a good bit. There are lots of extraneous details and excess dialogue that I felt added little to the book. An okay read, nothing more.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 5
- Membres
- 46
- Popularité
- #335,831
- Évaluation
- 3.1
- Critiques
- 5
- ISBN
- 7
I found this beautifully written, and that kept me reading, but the plot itself was slight and the forward momentum slowed by the three voices: chef Daniel, former waitress Hannah, and Daniel's wife Julie. The character development of Hannah and Julie could have been fuller. The plot itself was all too depressingly life like, but I suppose it ended on something of a hopeful note.