Don’t Believe It by Charlie Donlea
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
This one was my least favorite of the ones I read so far. I liked it but didn’t love it.
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I appear to be in a mystery hole at the moment so I am just enjoying reading books that are fun in the moment and I won’t remember later. Donlea’s are awesome in real-time, too complicated to remember later. I’m just going through all of his older novels and enjoying every single one.
I appear to be in a mystery hole at the moment so I am just enjoying reading books that are fun in the moment and I won’t remember later. Donlea’s are awesome in real-time, too complicated to remember later.
I enjoy reading Fortune’s novels. The characters are always enjoyable, real and not perfect. The love isn’t perfect either. This was a little melodramatic in parts. But I still loved it.
I saw this in a post somewhere in the middle of my mystery run and decided I wanted to read it. The reason many didn’t like it might be the same reason I did. I liked that it wasn’t so over the top or so scathing. It felt more like real life to me.
It was ok. Kept me occupied but also quite convoluted in places. I appear to be in a mystery hole at the moment so I am just enjoying reading books that are fun in the moment and I won’t remember later.
This was ok. Interesting and entertaining. But also a bit weird 🙂
This was my first Charlie Donlea. I randomly picked it from the library and it has made me fall down a rabbit hole of reading all of the Donela novels!
3.5 stars/ I read this because I didn’t want to watch the TV show without having read it. It was fun. A bit convoluted but still fun.
I love Kim Hopper’s novels. This was a 3.5 star for me throughout because I found myself distracted more often than usual but as always by the end of her story I was in love with her characters and only wanted the best of them. I can’t wait to read more of her.
This novel gets five stars from me because I am still thinking about it and in many ways it was unlike most novels I’ve read. The prose in this novel is outstanding. It’s vivid and visual and sensory. And there’s a feeling of longing, loneliness, beauty and foreboding throughout the whole novel. You almost don’t want to succumb to the hope and beauty that comes with the young relationship because the foreboding is so strong and there’s an inevitable question of what happens when Valerie’s vacation is over. The writing is masterful. The characters are richly drawn and most definitely I would love to live in Tofino. In fact, I spent a long time down in a rabbit hole after this novel looking at photos of Tofino. with gratitude to netgalley and the publisher for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.
For reasons I can’t explain this book took me forever to read. Maybe it’s because I could tell where it was going and it was tender and sad and I felt like I didn’t want to sit with that. Either way, it took me a long time to get through but it was gentle, tender, quiet, and also a sweet story about aging and companionship and loneliness. It was beautifully written and will stay with me for a long time. with gratitude to netgalley and the publisher for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review. |
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