ARC Review: Daddy

 

I received an ARC of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. This did not affect my opinion of the book or my review itself.

I loved Cline's book The Girls. It was the kind of book where after I read it, I went out and bought a copy so I could have it on my shelves whenever I wanted to re read it.

So I had high hopes for her new book, Daddy, a collection of short stories. Unfortunately, my hopes were not exactly met.

I find it hard to say exactly why I didn't love this book more.Cline has a great writing style. She gets you right into her character's heads. She's not afraid to play around in the dark underbelly of humanity-in fact, she purposefully dives right in. Also, Cline brings a unique perspective on the power struggles between men and women, between women and women, between parents and children, between rich and poor, between being famous and being infamous, between adults and children. 

I think I just finished the book feeling left unsatisfied. No story really felt completely finished and resolved, and even if that was the point, it just didn't work for me. I read the whole book in less than three hours, and found that I would forget what had happened in one story once I had started another. Some of the stories were definitely more memorable than others, but as a whole the collection didn't really hold together for me.

This was not a bad book by any means. I think I was just expecting so much, maybe too much, because of my love for The Girls.