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Book Review: Any Bitter Thing by Monica Wood
I won this book a couple of months ago and now that summer is here, I am getting caught up on some of my reading. I have two shelves of books that I need to read... but I digress.
I have a hard time giving book reviews. I don't want to give away all of the story. I prefer to just tell you what I thought of the book. Here's what the dust jacket cover says:
"Lizzy Mitchell was raised fromt he age of two by her uncle, a Catholic priest. She has never understood why she was taken from him and sent away to boarding school at age nine, and she believes the reasons were later buried along with her uncle. Now thirty years old and trying to save a failing marriage, Lizzy nearly dies in a traffic accident. In the haze of recovery in the hospital she hears the voice of her beloved uncle, Father Mike, and sets out to find the truth about him and about her past.
Her search and what she discovers completely shatters her understanding of herself, her closest friends and the ties that bind.
This thoroughly engrossing novel about belief and deception, love and acceptance will defy your expectations and reward you with its revelations."
I found the characters in this story interesting and believable. I found Ms. Wood's writing style a bit confusing as she changes POV a lot without warning and I often had to do a 'double take' to figure out who was speaking and what time period they were in (the story goes back and forth in time). The story definitely has a couple of twists that I wasn't anticipating. And the story definitely is a good exploration of how we can railroad people into a box and how we can miss the bigger and real story while doing so.
I gave this book 3 out of 5 stars.
