I’m sure that she is a really great writer. She has quite a few books published that have good reviews attached to them. Eileen Goudge has been a published author since 1989 with fifteen titles and millions in print. Outstanding.
But, I wasn’t that into this book, Once In A Blue Moon. Actually, if truth be told, which it’s going to be here. I didn’t finish it. I couldn’t.
The characters were real and likable enough. The plot was interesting yet predictable. But I found the dialogue to be boring. Or maybe that’s really how people talk? I don’t know. I like characters with a little snark. On occasion there was some creative conversation but mostly, yawn.
Books are subjective. Just because this book wasn’t the type of book that I enjoyed, it may be the perfect book for someone else.
Personally, I like books that have more adventure and less predictability.
So, the premise of the book is this. Two sisters, same mother, different father. They were taken away from their mom because she was a drug dealer and neglectful of her children. The two sisters go to different foster homes and have entirely different life experiences. They meet up again in their 30′s. And they rediscover their bond, amongst other stuff that happens.
I actually had been looking forward to reading it based on the description with One@One, the network who I get my review stuff. Check them out, by the way, AWESOME ladies!!
I was disappointed in the read. Sigh.
But. *smile* You might not be.
You can find Eileen Goudge on twitter at @eileengoudge and her Facebook fan page here.
Disclosure: I received this book, Once In A Blue Moon by Eileen Goudge, from One@One Network to review. I did not get paid, I got a book. I didn’t particularly like it but, it’s now mine to sit on my bookshelf.
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October 6, 2009 at 3:53 pm
Dddiva
You’re the first other reviewer I’ve read who didn’t fawn over the book. I wanted to like it, I was excited to be chosen, but I too- yawn. I had the geekazoid read and review it because I couldn’t finish it either.
Maybe the next one (if there is one) will be snarktacular and more my style.
October 6, 2009 at 9:19 pm
bluecottonmemory
So much of 20th/21 Century lit takes all the hope out of a story. It’s almost like, how sad, how miserable can we make things (granted Dickens shows misery) but Dickens, Elliot, Austen, and even those Bronte sisters, worked towards hope, that goodness can prevail. I want good to win. Too much lit is just about failure and crawling back into that failure!
Granted, I know that there’s lit out there that’s not like this, but this seems to be the media-encouraged theme. I agree with what you said about what books should have–good conversation, adventure (because every day is an adventure, especially if you’re trying to get out of a hopeless situation.