Comments on: Idaho by Emily Ruskovich | Review

By: Susie

Susie — Sat, 07 Jan 2017 17:56:13 +0000

In reply to Tara. I'll be interested to hear what you think of Idaho.

By: Susie

Susie — Sat, 07 Jan 2017 17:55:42 +0000

In reply to Toady. Thanks! It seems people are pretty divided on Idaho.

By: Toady

Toady — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 13:11:34 +0000

This is a much more positive review than the last I read elsewhere. Now I don’t know what to do. I suppose I will just hold out awhile and see how I feel about it after clearing some must reads from my pile. Great review.

By: Susie | Novel Visits

Susie | Novel Visits — Wed, 04 Jan 2017 01:37:32 +0000

In reply to Sarah's Book Shelves. Narrate was a poor choice of words on my part. (I fixed it.) When the story moved to what Eliot and Tom were doing and thinking in the years after June's disappearance, I just felt it was unnecessary to the story. And, the chapter about what was happening to the blood hound as he searched for her scent was just too much!

By: Tara

Tara — Tue, 03 Jan 2017 16:25:37 +0000

Susie, I think I’m going to go ahead and give it a try; thanks for the heads up on all of the date switching back and forth. Sometimes, that type of storytelling really annoys me; it’ll be interesting to see how it plays out with this one, as well as the multiple narrators. Thanks so much for this review!

By: Sarah's Book Shelves

Sarah's Book Shelves — Tue, 03 Jan 2017 12:41:54 +0000

I’m trying to think of narrators other than the ones you mentioned….the ones that were superfluous. Maybe so superfluous that I can’t remember them?! I didn’t really get the whole Elizabeth/Sylvia/Jenny thing and why so much of the book was devoted to that. I can see just Jenny, but we didn’t get much about her mental state, which is what I wanted from that section.

I’m posting my review on Thursday.