LitPick Review
Jenny is struggling with life after the death of her best friend. Jenny tries to manage her depression by getting involved with activities and by getting support from her husband and kids, but nothing Jenny does takes her away from her grief. One day, Jenny meet a lady in a creative writing class, and she is determined that this person will heal her from her darkness. The pure presence of this lady makes Jenny happy. Jenny becomes obsessed with befriending this person and soon learns that getting close to someone is more challenging than it used to be. This is a story about overcoming personal feelings and self-discovery.
Opinion:
This book is written in third-person omniscient narration and can be challenging to keep up with who is thinking what. I also had a difficult time understanding the humour, but that could be because the humour is based from Stoke and I live in Eastern America. Overall, this is a good book that displays the importance of mental health. This book focuses on the challenges Jenny goes through while battling grief and depression, and the feelings she experiences make the reader experience her feelings as well. I was not a fan of how everyone was referred to as "duck." This was a huge turn-off for me. I'm assuming "duck" is slang in Stoke, but the phrase was completely overused. The story plot, however, is good. The writer did a nice job making you shift feelings about Jenny from the beginning of the book to the end. I started off not liking Jenny's character, but in the end, my feelings for Jenny warmed. This book is heart-warming and humourous if you can get past the poorly written dialogue.
