The Little Friend

Cakes, Snakes & Automobiles

3.5 rounded up. This is a book that is on the cusp of being something truly magnificent, don't think I've read a book where the characters are so well written. However, there is a problem and that problem is “stuff”. There is so much “stuff” in this book and I mean A LOT of “stuff”, it's swimming in stuff, chapters and chapters of intricately woven bits of “stuff” , it's beautiful “stuff!” no doubt about it but there's lots of it. I can't help but wonder how much “stuff” would need to be removed to make this the magnificent thing it really should be. It's a case of “stuff” versus story and in this case stuff wins and story loses. I

Hated the ending.