~*BOOK REVIEW*~ The Home by Karen Osman


~*BOOK REVIEW*~

The Home by Karen Osman




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5 *****

Right, now where to start with this review? My mind is still whirling in circles and I trying to get to grips of that ending... I definitely didn't see that coming!! Who I suspected? Well, it wasn't. I'm quite impressed, and mystified, with how the author never let NOTHING slip throughout the whole book!!!

The characters - Angela, Rosemary, James, Evelyn - were all so amazingly well portrayed, though I really wasn't fond of Angela's snobbiness or with how stuck up she was. And Rosemary's attitude, for an older woman, was quite poor. I didn't like her anger, her pretentiousness, her mothering ways... she wasn't very supportive that's for sure. Now James was a huge surprise and I really liked him. Evelyn? Typical woman who grew up on a council estate; brash, takes no prisoners, paranoid etc etc (and, no, I don't mean anything by that at all as I, too, grew up in council estates and still live in one!) but at the same time, I quite liked her. She had her quirks and her set backs... but so did ALL of the characters.

The diary entries were definitely insightful into the life of a children's home in the 70's. I'm sure a lot of it still happens to this day. The whole story was really well written, carefully planned and thought out and brilliantly put together. The ending really made the story COMPLETELY different. I mean, after that ending I'm reevaluating everything I read before it. It's been a while since a book did that to me, that's for sure!

Karen Osman is a new author to me, and boy am I glad I took the chance, because the story in a superstar material... I now need to get her other book because her writing is just on point, perfect and fabulous.

This book was ALMOST flawless, it's just the character's attitudes that let it down a bit for me, but regardless, this book is still a 5 star read. Great storyline, awesome penmanship, quirky characters and a WHOLE lot more!

Bravo!



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