Stars in the Grass by Ann Marie StewartMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
The premise is very depressing. A child is killed in an accident and the family has to deal with the tragedy--all seen from the eyes of a 9-year-old girl. There are some sweet moments, and one or two places made me smile, but frankly the whole is gut-wrenching. I fight depression all the time, so this book was not good for me to read. The reason is there was no hope or ray of sunshine given at the beginning of the story. I need that to know that to latch onto because we can't count on happy endings anymore. There have been lots of books that end, and I feel cheated because the ending did not meet expectations.
It's very well written. It stays in the 70s with no oppsies from the 21st century, even speech patterns stay in the 70s. BUT readers need hope when faced with reading something so depressing. There has to be hope for the sunshine in a rainy week otherwise it becomes too oppressive.
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2 comments:
Gina -- sorry you felt that way. My goal was the opposite: hope and joy revisited.
I realized you didn't intend for it to be depressing! The problem was me, not you or the writing. I should have realized it before ordering it. But the blurb about it made it seem there might be more sunshine than what I found.
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