The Memory Keeper's Daughter
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If Lifetime published a novel...
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The lives of a set of twins is traced, following their separate upbringings with different parents and different abilities.
There are very few times in a novel that I want to reach into the book and throttle a character. I wanted to throttle every single adult character in this novel. They are full of contraditions-when David sees his wife at a dinner party she organized, he is amazed by her ability to mingle so well. Yet when he first sees her, this is an ability that originally attracts her.
The only character I ever felt a glimmer of respect for was Carline-and then only because of her efforts to get her daughter into school (my son has special needs, so I have a great deal of respect for the people who worked so hard to secure the rights of all children to get a free and appropriate public education)-but that was quickly tempered by the continued cliches.
The book is frustratingly full of cliches-both of phrases and of plotlines. Halfway through the novel, I was rolling my eyes repeatedly. I knew what was happening way too far in advanced. I thought it was only all happy families that were suppose to be the same, and unhappy ones are unhappy in different ways. There was nothing different about these families. Lies, hiding, secrets, the inability to talk about problems, dad telling son what to be when he grows up, distance between a married couple. In the hands of a more talented author, these are compelling plot devices. Instead, these were hackneyed pieces to a promising story.
I realize that I am not the target audience for this book-yes, I'm a woman and the mother of a special needs child. But I also want my fiction to speak to me, not to repeat what I can get elsewhere from better writers. |
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