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Apr 01, 2015Eosos rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
I was rather torn as to the rating I was going to give this book. On one hand it's a very well written story, it's compelling and it draws you in to lives of the characters. On the other, I didn't feel empathy for them or really understand (on a personal level, not an intellectual one) what was going on. At many points in the book I thought Mary Rose should just get on with life, to stop the denial and move toward a solution. And then I'd think that she was and that was the whole point of the story, though she still annoyed me. I always find that stories about motherhood, either the want of or the hardships of or the love of, is completely lost on me. I have no context in my own life for any of that and I lose the emotion that books are trying to convey about such subjects and I think miss much of the potential of such stories. So, I compromised on the rating. A 4 for the writing and being able to create such an engaging story and a 2 for the actual storyline make it a 3.