I’m still deciding if I enjoyed this book or not.
The beginning had me hooked in as I enjoyed reading about the hardship and love of the Harland family. The book lost me with the introduction of the narrator as a boy living in Southport. I had to turn back and re-read the lead up wondering if I had missed something. I didn’t see the point of reading about his dying grandfather and had to flick through the pages to see when I would pick up on Frank Harland again.
I wasn’t interested in the narrator I was interested in Frank and found it increasingly annoying not to be reading about him for large chunks of the novel.
Whilst it was a well written book, the dialogue was great, very natural conversations between the characters, the history of Brisbane and Southport was interesting, but unfortunately it just didn’t grab me and I started to resent reading it when I could be reading something I really enjoy!
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