Hello,
Today I am going to review the Meg Wolitzer
book “The Interesting’s” which is the January – A Beautiful Mess book club
book. I’m going to start off by saying I would not normally have read this
book, I would have walked past this in a bookstore and not really thought
anything much of it. I decided to do the A Beautiful Mess book club so that I could
be exposed to books that I would not normally pick up and read. Every month I will
post up a little review of the book of the month. So here goes.
The book starts off with a group of
teenagers meeting in the 80s at a summer camp called “Spirit in the woods”. It
tells the story of how all of the unlikely acquainted friends become friends
and how they more than likely would not have become friends if it hadn’t been
for this summer camp.
The characters are very loveable and by the
end of the book you dearly care about them. You have Jules who is not so lusted
after and every time she is embarrassed blushes very red. There’s Ash and
Goodman Wolf who are both beautiful and the wolf family are very well off,
which makes them very appealing to Jules whose family are not so well off.
There’s Ethan Figman who is very artistic and throughout his teenage years and
right up to his adult life he is constantly scribbling drawings in his
notebooks.
Throughout the book you get to see the
young teenagers all become young adults, then become married off and you see
their careers. All the way through the book you see that that Jules tries to
keep all of the characters as friends in their adult life and tries desperately
to hold on to their childhood as much as they can. The book takes the friends
all the way up to their 50s.
This book is filled with tragedy, friendship,
devotion, loyalty, growing up, finding yourself, never giving up, staying
strong to your dreams and always cherishing memories.
I’m really glad that I took the time to
read this book, it was really refreshing and you can relate a lot with some of
the characters which I like. I’ve already started looking into other Meg Woltizer
books to see if there is any other ones that I would find interesting. There is
a few now that I have my eye on already.
This book was so good that I spent a lot of
time reading this and read it very quickly. As I read all of my books on my
kindle it doesn’t display the page numbers, but I think it’s roughly about 452
pages long.
This review isn’t a heavy review as I do not
want to spoil it for people. I don’t want to give too much of the story line
away as I think it would spoil this book.
You can find the A Beautiful Mess blog here
where you can find the book club posts and join in as well. Is anyone else
doing the book club?
Thank you for reading
Katy
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