The story line and character development was intriguing and heart wrenching. As a parent of a teenager (multiple) it is difficult at times to come to terms with the fact that our children can lead completely separate lives from us that we know nothing about. My only issue with this book, and it’s a doozy of an issue, was the poor editing. There were too many times I had to reread a sentence to try and decipher its meaning and there is one paragraph in the book that I swear is just a mumble jumble of words. I know it isn’t just me because I read it aloud to my husband and he winced as well but alas he couldn’t help decipher a meaning. I by no means make claims nor do I have aspirations to be the grammar police, read my reviews I have a tendency to write the way I talk grammar be damned. I, however, am not publishing a book. It’s just a pet peeve of mine. I do come across a lot more of the spelling errors and grammatical mistakes in e-books. I can get over a few mistakes but not when they are at the magnitude contained in this novel.
Thursday, March 12, 2015
Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight
Kate and Amelia Baron are a single mother- daughter team who has tried their hardest to make the best of being a teenager with a mom who is almost never home. Kate works hard to spend quality time with her daughter even if it can’t be a lot of time. Kate thought she knew her daughter until the day she got the phone call from the school. Kate races to her daughter school thinking that her daughter is about to be expelled, searching her mind for how her daughter could have possibly gone down this road. Kate arrives at the school only to discover that her daughter took her own life, jumping off the roof of the school. As Kate begins to question where her own life goes from this point forward she begins to discover that her daughter was keeping some very big secrets from her. Did Amelia kill herself or did someone kill her? The only way to find out is to retrace Amelia’s life and discover the secrets her daughter was keeping from her.
The story line and character development was intriguing and heart wrenching. As a parent of a teenager (multiple) it is difficult at times to come to terms with the fact that our children can lead completely separate lives from us that we know nothing about. My only issue with this book, and it’s a doozy of an issue, was the poor editing. There were too many times I had to reread a sentence to try and decipher its meaning and there is one paragraph in the book that I swear is just a mumble jumble of words. I know it isn’t just me because I read it aloud to my husband and he winced as well but alas he couldn’t help decipher a meaning. I by no means make claims nor do I have aspirations to be the grammar police, read my reviews I have a tendency to write the way I talk grammar be damned. I, however, am not publishing a book. It’s just a pet peeve of mine. I do come across a lot more of the spelling errors and grammatical mistakes in e-books. I can get over a few mistakes but not when they are at the magnitude contained in this novel.
The story line and character development was intriguing and heart wrenching. As a parent of a teenager (multiple) it is difficult at times to come to terms with the fact that our children can lead completely separate lives from us that we know nothing about. My only issue with this book, and it’s a doozy of an issue, was the poor editing. There were too many times I had to reread a sentence to try and decipher its meaning and there is one paragraph in the book that I swear is just a mumble jumble of words. I know it isn’t just me because I read it aloud to my husband and he winced as well but alas he couldn’t help decipher a meaning. I by no means make claims nor do I have aspirations to be the grammar police, read my reviews I have a tendency to write the way I talk grammar be damned. I, however, am not publishing a book. It’s just a pet peeve of mine. I do come across a lot more of the spelling errors and grammatical mistakes in e-books. I can get over a few mistakes but not when they are at the magnitude contained in this novel.
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