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The Trouble With Alice (2000)

by Olivia Glazebrook(Favorite Author)

2.96 of 5 Votes: 4

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Short Books

review 1: More of a 2.5 than a 3, but feeling a bit generous, and I suppose I did like it, in a way. I did find Alice a bit annoying at times (maybe I'm not very patient with sick people), and I found Kit to be a bit distant. In fact, I suppose I wasn't really that bothered about either character. It had a plot, suitable twists and turns etc, but for some reason I just didn't engage brilliantly with it. It was still ok to read though.
review 2: Ok, enough already. I got further with this book than it had any right to expect of me, but its sheer blandness got me in the end. A relationship is under strain, then it breaks up, then...who cares? Unsympathetic, unbelievable protagonists surrounded by a coterie of two dimensional, middle class characters, drowning in treacly, l... moreeaden, faux-lyrical prose, no story to speak of, no energy, no point. I wonder sometimes why some author are offered representation by literary agents and others aren't. And who actually makes the decision to publish a book and why? And I conclude that I do not understand anything about the publishing industry. less

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