Jaclyn’s Review: The Wonder by Emma Donoghue

The Wonder
written by Emma Donoghue
published by Little, Brown and Company, 2016

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Did I enjoy this book? Yawn! I had been recommended this book as a potential book club pick, so I was pretty excited to read it. My goodness this was a slog! All of the characters were unlikeable, and the plot moved SO SLOWLY–it became very difficult to care about the outcome. Even when the big emotional reveal happens at the end of the book, I wasn’t surprised and didn’t really care by that point. This book was a major letdown.

Would I recommend it? I didn’t care for this book, so I would not recommend it. I just didn’t care for the characters or the story, so that made it hard to care about the ending. This one was just too boring.
 

 

About the book – from Goodreads: The Irish Midlands, 1859. An English nurse, Lib Wright, is summoned to a tiny village to observe what some are claiming as a medical anomaly or a miracle – a girl said to have survived without food for months. Tourists have flocked to the cabin of eleven-year-old Anna O’Donnell, and a journalist has come down to cover the sensation. The Wonder is a tale of two strangers who transform each other’s lives, a psychological thriller, and a story of love pitted against evil.

 

 
 

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