Molly Grimmius's Reviews > Sandwich

On What should you read next summer guide and I read the previous book by this author and loved it though had some parts I didn’t like.
This is hard to rate…. This author is a brilliant writer and she absolutely nails writing about certain emotions and subjects so absolutely beautiful and I want to give her all the stars. For example, this book is set she the author is 50 and it’s their summer vacation to cape cod and she talks about all their summer vacations here and she talks so well about the layers and different stages they were in… and I have felt all those things.i loved how she writes about families and their dynamics… perfection…. 5 stars to those parts.

BUT
Her worldview and what she believes as portrayed through her characters is so so an opposite spectrum… compiling with all the correct labels and choices and rights and oh how she talked about abortion made me want to puke and how she talked about women and me. And oh her daughter …. So pointing out all that is not what you say and rights and rights and ugh. It was like she gave you this family that is doing all the accepting g and you could still see all the struggle and still not happy still not satisfied… still empty and loss because just getting those things you want doesn’t make it right or easier… there still is longing and need because you need Jesus… all this which was so much of the book gets one star… but I will say… I am glad I read it to just hear this very liberal accepting agenda and how it’s never enough… and to hear how they feel about things.

Would not recommend which sucks because some parts were perfection.