Kim's Reviews > The Gatecrasher

** spoiler alert ** The thing is that i was really interested int he story and the characters of this novel.
Richard and his mysterious dead wife, Gillian and the life she gave up,l Philippa and her hideous awful marriage , Antony, poor little sweet Antony, with his boyish imperfections and insecurities, Crazy Zara and her obsession with her father and her faked American Accent.
I liked the plot and how easy it was to read ( not that that is a standard requirement of mine, but anyone who is a fan of this author probably understands what I'm talking about). I commend the author for penning a novel about death, greiving and depresseion yet keeping the overall feel of the novel light and carefree, hopeful and optimistic.
It would have received another star however, i was confused by our main character Fleur. It seemed as though in the end, every one of the characters came to some kind of change, completed some kind of journey, but I'm not quite sure that she did.
What confused me about Fleur was that she did all of these great things for all of these people, but did she even notice? Did she even care? For expmle, she convinced Phillippa to leave her dreaded husband, but then hung her out to dry when she reached out to her. Fleur was remarkably unremorseful and unsympathetic and unchanging and yet the author suggested change at the end . . . I feel like the author should have divulged to us a little bit more about our main character and the journey she travelled through out.