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Golden Child
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THIS BOOKS IS SO DISAPPOINTING.
I wanted to love it -- I really did -- but it just falls flat from the very beginning. The premise is so auspicious: twins born to poor parents in rural Trinidad; one perfectly healthy, the other deprived of oxygen at birth and developmentally delayed for the rest of his life. Their trajectory is fairly predictable: Peter excels at everything, Paul disappoints. But it culminates in (what could've been) a really suspenseful And while this storyline has so much potential, Claire Adam just doesn't deliver. The story is slow, lackluster, and lacking in any kind of of meaningful character development. While the end -- if you get there -- is devastating, it lacks the emotional gravitas it could have if the story that preceded it were more thoroughly developed.
I think what I appreciate about this book is the central question it implores the reader to ask about love -- specifically about the way we love our family despite their imperfections. Three stars for the book's premise (and promise). I just wish it had made me feel more!
I wanted to love it -- I really did -- but it just falls flat from the very beginning. The premise is so auspicious: twins born to poor parents in rural Trinidad; one perfectly healthy, the other deprived of oxygen at birth and developmentally delayed for the rest of his life. Their trajectory is fairly predictable: Peter excels at everything, Paul disappoints. But it culminates in (what could've been) a really suspenseful And while this storyline has so much potential, Claire Adam just doesn't deliver. The story is slow, lackluster, and lacking in any kind of of meaningful character development. While the end -- if you get there -- is devastating, it lacks the emotional gravitas it could have if the story that preceded it were more thoroughly developed.
I think what I appreciate about this book is the central question it implores the reader to ask about love -- specifically about the way we love our family despite their imperfections. Three stars for the book's premise (and promise). I just wish it had made me feel more!
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December 30, 2018
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December 30, 2018
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January 7, 2019
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January 9, 2019
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Apr 14, 2020 10:10PM
Omg sammmme tho. This book had some amazing, quotable lines, but it just didn’t feel... finished..? Or like... I didn’t really get a storyline vibe ever. And a lot of things that happened felt just wrong for the plot. I get what you’re saying—the writing made me wanna love it, but the plot failed to do so
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I agree with you totally, and I am from Trinidad. I do not read a lot of reviews before reading the book, but your review reflects my own. I think the Sarah Jessica Parker publicity machine was on overdrive to make this book successful. I was totally underwhelmed by it.
Completely agree!
