A disappointing read that left me unfulfilled. The plot had potential, with multiple seemingly disconnected threads that I hoped would eventually converge.
Hoped.
The same hope of a grand reveal kept me turning the pages.
The hope of something that would imbue every prior moment with new meaning; something that would make me look at the story in a new light.
But alas, all I got was poor attempt at reconciliation. A pitiful way to tie everything together. An unsatisfying ending.
Maybe that’s all the story was from the very beginning. An ordinary plot with potential that was doomed to remain anything utterly ordinary.
Maybe it was my misplaced expectations, my deep seated need for a plot altering ending which made the book unappealing for me. You rarely get what you hope for, and in that regard, the book delivers.
2/5.
More of a rating of myself and my expectations from a story than of the novel itself.