Kristin Comeaux

Disappointing. This book started out with a lot of promise, and I want to give credit for imagery and really placing you there with the characters. However, for a realistic fiction novel it did not feel realistic at all. If you can look past that, it is still incredibly hard to want to keep reading this after a certain point. The plot is lost in painfully long descriptions of nothing. I couldn’t keep reading after chapter 6, it becomes so painfully dull with no mention of the plot with the painting which is what intrigued me in the first place. Probably a hundred pages about teenage boys doing drugs and showing how deadbeat their fathers are - I understand the need for character development, but character development with no plot, with characters I have no care for, is painfully hard to continue reading. Maybe one day I’ll give it another chance but I have no idea how this won an award.