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Got it confused with another Kick Kennedy book (the one by Paula Byrne) but I finished it anyways. Only covers her life in Britain, which is fine but didn't give any context or background as to who the Kennedy family were or what they were like, and nothing about how she was raised in America. It is also weirdly paced considering it only convers the span of like ten years. The book also did not properly convey Kick's voice, and little of her personality which attracted the British nobility was allowed to come through.
Personally, I find myself disliking Kick, I find her to be a spoiled poor little rich girl and her political views distasteful (she seems to be very nostalgic for a more feudal England where the aristocracy hunt and party in castles while the working class struggle), but I was interested to see that she was not just a party girl like the popular perception of her shows, but rather much like her siblings she seemed very politically ambitious and a bit of a social climber who mourned the loss of a life as a duchess and politician's wife just as much (or even more) than she mourned her husband. Again that's why the book needed more context as to the Kennedy siblings upbringing.
He is genuinely a good author, and his account can be very funny, warm, and heartbreaking but it is just bogged down with so many details.
a candle cove type story with a very on the nose message and you'd be forgiven for thinking these characters are young adults and not nearing 40 but its true, mormons are really scary.
Main character is an NT author's idea of a quirky autistic character and comes off as a very annoying stereotype
Imagine fucking up a child murder case because you had the hots for a teenaged girl, couldn't be me
The ratio of creeps and pedos to normal people on this tiny Cornish island is legitimately insane