This week's book:
The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes
By Elissa R. Sloan
This week's book was my Book of the Month book at some point (I can't remember which month). It was sold as similar to Daisy Jones and the Six, which I loved, and would highly recommend.
This week's book is the story of Cassidy Holmes told in two time frames: as a young woman in a girl singing group in the late 1990's, and after her death in the present day. We learn about the rise and fall of the band and how Cassidy slowly becomes more and more out of control of her life.
I'm going to be honest here, I was very disappointed by the book. I always say I need one character I can connect with or relate to, and I just couldn't do that in this book. This is the debut of the author and it kind of shows. When someone is coming out with their first book, they have either been working on it forever and it's amazing (think Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird or John Grisham's A Time to Kill or Andy Weir's The Martian) or they need to keep working on their craft (think Jodi Picolt with Song of the Humpback Whale).
I don't want to push anyone away from a book, but this wasn't my cup of tea.
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