Love Anthony DNF Review

Book: Love Anthony

Author: Lisa Genova

Pages: 320

Released: September 2012 (hardback) April 2013 (paperback)

Started: August 13th 2017

Finished: August 15th 2017

Goodreads: 1*

Welcome 

To my DNF post about Love Anthony. I wanted to love the book, but couldn't. Out of all the books that I have read this year (those I have finished and DNF'd) I think this is the biggest disappointment of them all. 

My Review

I've had the book on my shelf for what seems like forever. I've tried to read it but only got as far as the first chapter. 

Ok so this is after reading 66 pages. I wanna strangle somebody. I mean it's so slow and boring that I think paint would be more fun to read about. I find that the characters are really selfish and self obsessed. There are a lot of people who go through divorce or having a child with autism, but in the way they are coming across I wanna scream and shout at them. Beth going to look for the woman her husband cheated on her with is so cliche. 

It's one of those books that I want to throw across the room. 

Because I didn't like it enough to put myself through any more of the trash, I gave up. At 66 pages.  Which most of my other DNF books this year I at least got to triple digits before that happened. 

The way that the book is laid out is a massive pet peeve of mine. The spacing between the end of a line and the end of the book for me was far to big. 

The copy of the book I have is the black cover one. What I will say is that I don't understand why there is three versions of the book, two really similar and actually have a massive part in the book (that I read up to) where the third is completely different. 

I know that the book covers autism, and while up to page 66, it touches on it, it's not really enough.  It's just how he (Anthony) was diagnosed and a little trait that he has. 

I didn't feel connected to any of the characters and the main two women Beth and Olivia could easily be confused as just side characters 

The one star that I gave the book is being generous. 

I found some other people via Goodreads that had the same kind of feelings as I did towards the book


Laren
xoxo