Greenwich by Kate Broad
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
This Book was:
Sad
Boring
Embarassing
Discriminatory
Ego Driven
Inner Dialogueing ad nauseam
Discrimantory
What this book was was a long-winded inner dialogue with an adolescent who is still trying to find herself. There are hints of a tragedy yet to come, but Rachel was a tad too psychotic to be believable. I had a difficult time getting through this novel, even though I am a Connecticut citizen, and thought I would gain a fascinating insight into the super elite. I did not get what I thought I would get. And yes, Connecticut did have a female governor at one time, and it wasn't the Bridgeport Post newspaper in that time period; it had already become the Connecticut Post.
*ARC was supplied by the publisher, St. Martin's Press, the author, and NetGalley.
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Summer, 1999. Rachel Fiske is almost eighteen when she arrives at her aunt and uncle’s mansion in Greenwich, Connecticut. Her glamorous aunt is struggling to heal from an injury, and Rachel wants to help—and escape her own troubles back home. But her aunt is oddly spacey and her uncle is consumed with business, and Rachel feels lonely and adrift, excluded from the world of adults and their secrets. The only bright spot is Claudia, a recent college graduate, aspiring artist, and the live-in babysitter for Rachel’s cousin. As summer deepens, Rachel eagerly hopes their friendship might grow into more.
But when a tragic accident occurs, the family turns on Claudia in a desperate bid to salvage their reputation. Caught between her upbringing and her feelings for Claudia, her desire to do the right thing and to protect her future, Rachel must make a pivotal choice. She’s the only one who knows what really happened—and her decision has consequences far beyond what she could have predicted."
Sad
Boring
Embarassing
Discriminatory
Ego Driven
Inner Dialogueing ad nauseam
Discrimantory
What this book was was a long-winded inner dialogue with an adolescent who is still trying to find herself. There are hints of a tragedy yet to come, but Rachel was a tad too psychotic to be believable. I had a difficult time getting through this novel, even though I am a Connecticut citizen, and thought I would gain a fascinating insight into the super elite. I did not get what I thought I would get. And yes, Connecticut did have a female governor at one time, and it wasn't the Bridgeport Post newspaper in that time period; it had already become the Connecticut Post.
*ARC was supplied by the publisher, St. Martin's Press, the author, and NetGalley.
View all my reviews
Description:"A riveting debut novel for readers of Celeste Ng, Greenwich explores the nature of desire and complicity against the backdrop of immense wealth and privilege, the ways that whiteness and power protect their own, and the uneasy moral ambiguity of redemption.
Summer, 1999. Rachel Fiske is almost eighteen when she arrives at her aunt and uncle’s mansion in Greenwich, Connecticut. Her glamorous aunt is struggling to heal from an injury, and Rachel wants to help—and escape her own troubles back home. But her aunt is oddly spacey and her uncle is consumed with business, and Rachel feels lonely and adrift, excluded from the world of adults and their secrets. The only bright spot is Claudia, a recent college graduate, aspiring artist, and the live-in babysitter for Rachel’s cousin. As summer deepens, Rachel eagerly hopes their friendship might grow into more.
But when a tragic accident occurs, the family turns on Claudia in a desperate bid to salvage their reputation. Caught between her upbringing and her feelings for Claudia, her desire to do the right thing and to protect her future, Rachel must make a pivotal choice. She’s the only one who knows what really happened—and her decision has consequences far beyond what she could have predicted."
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