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Book Review: Serious Sweet, by A L Kennedy
Nudged by her Doctor Who story I read a few years ago, I thought I would try this when it turned up in the work book sale. I'm surprised it is so lowly-rated on Goodreads, as I didn't think it was a bad book, but it was rather long, and the use of several different fonts - which indicate the different voices - was irritating. The story of Jon and Meg takes place over 24 hours (although there are various flashbacks and some non-sequiturs) and it's written in a real-time style, which is interesting and perhaps clever, though frankly some of the extended essays the characters come up with in their heads do drag on a bit. It was worth pursuing, because both late-middle-aged, divorced and disillusioned civil servant Jon, and former accountant and recovering alcoholic Meg do have interesting back-stories, and there are also multiple plot-lines within the book's contemporary timeline, but it hovered a few times on the edge of the wrong side of the effort/reward equation for this reader.
Nudged by her Doctor Who story I read a few years ago, I thought I would try this when it turned up in the work book sale. I'm surprised it is so lowly-rated on Goodreads, as I didn't think it was a bad book, but it was rather long, and the use of several different fonts - which indicate the different voices - was irritating. The story of Jon and Meg takes place over 24 hours (although there are various flashbacks and some non-sequiturs) and it's written in a real-time style, which is interesting and perhaps clever, though frankly some of the extended essays the characters come up with in their heads do drag on a bit. It was worth pursuing, because both late-middle-aged, divorced and disillusioned civil servant Jon, and former accountant and recovering alcoholic Meg do have interesting back-stories, and there are also multiple plot-lines within the book's contemporary timeline, but it hovered a few times on the edge of the wrong side of the effort/reward equation for this reader.