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The Pollyanna Plan (2012)

by Talli Roland(Favorite Author)

3.47 of 5 Votes: 4

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Notting Hill Press

review 1: This is one of those books that was almost very good. Not great, but it almost deserved a "very" in front of the good. What kept me from adding the "very" is a little difficult to express.On the one hand, the author presents two interesting central characters. Both have excessive baggage, both are trying to live a narrowly defined life that no longer works for them, both live with tragedy. And when the book focuses on the evolution of those characters it deserves the "very good". You feel the female character's painful awkwardness and the male character's fear of further rejection.She looses it though with the way the plot is hurried. The two characters don't have sufficient time or history to build a relationship which is born out with the impractical and unrealistic way ... moreshe finally gets them together. I felt like the last quarter of the book was the most important, but got the least amount of time or attention from the author.One other complaint is that the male character's issues arose from a very serious health problem. I don't doubt that someone could fall in love with a person they recently met, even knowing that the person suffered from a debilitating illness with a very poor prognosis. But I do doubt that they could fall in love and totally ignore the issue. The fact that this was so lightly glossed over really bothered me.
review 2: I liked the characters in this book. I was rooting for them.The narrative revolves around the protagonist Emma's inner dialog. I found that dialog at times to be repetitive and cloying.The conceit of this book, that Emma is convinced by Alice to take on a Pollyanna approach to her life after losing her job and her boyfriend I did not find believable.More convincing would have been a more natural process of self-discovery that could have evolved from the emptiness and fear that Emma felt after losing her supposedly safe job and safe boyfriend. less

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