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This is one of my favorite authors, but despite the interesting premise, and rich setting and backstory, I struggled with this book.
I attribute that largely to disliking Suzanna's whiny, passiveaggressive behavior and lack of gratitude for the people who loved her.
Generally, I can relate to characters who are dissatisfied with their lives or marriages or whatnot, but I really could not feel much for Suzanna's complaints, nor forgive her for the way she lied to and led on her husband, making a promise about something so vital as children only to then cheat on him and dump him a year later, so that he is still childless and she ends up having a baby with the new guy.
Her husband was not a bad guy just the wrong guy, so he deserved much better from her than he got.
Although this ending is realistic, the injustice of it rubbed me the wrong way and I took no joy in her happy ending.
I don't see that she actually did anything to earn an HEA,
An important secondary story also ends tragically, which made this a doubly heavy read,
That said, I really enjoyed the supporting characters, interwoven stories, and multiple timelines, Creative, original, and superb writing kept me reading until the end, In the Sixties, Athene Forster is the most glamorous girl of her generation, Nicknamed the Last Deb, she is also beautiful, spoilt and out of control, When she agrees to marry dashing young heir Douglas FairleyHulme her parents breathe a sigh of relief, But within two years rumours have begun to circulate about Athene's affair with a young salesman, Thirty five years on, Suzanna Peacock is struggling with her glamorous mother's legacy, At odds with her father and his second wife, struggling in a stalled marriage, she returns to the place of her birth to find that the ghost of her mother, in differing ways, still haunts them all.
The only place she finds comfort is in her shop, The Peacock Emporium, a coffee shopcumcurio store, decorated in her own image, which provides a haven for other misfits in the town.
There she makes perhaps the first real friends of her life, including Alejandro, a male midwife, escaping his own ghosts in Argentina.
But the spectre of Athene and the shop itself combine to set in place a chain of tragic events, forcing Suzanna to confront the feelings she has disguised for so long and her family, in their varying ways, finally to deal with the events of the past.
And Suzanna discovers the key to her history, and her happiness, may have been in front of her all along.
I'm so relieved that I've finished this!
I feel like I should get a medal for making it through this.
Any other author and I would have given up easily after the first couple chapters, I'm not an easy reader, I'm not one of those people that can finish a book in a day so its really a miracle that I slugged through this and finished it.
I would not recommend this to anyone who loves romances
My thoughts while reading this
Bored.
. .
I want to give up, .
The main character Suzanna is depressing to read,
Boring
I feel sorry for her husband Neil,
So depressing .
What the hell is this book even about
I want to read something else
And this is all justthat I read.
I hated how her husband Neil was treated, he desperately just wanted kids and Suzanna's attitude to all that was just a complete inconvenience to her.
I felt like Neil was wasting his time with her and should just divorce her, she definitely didn't deserve him.
I mean she's nearinghe's nearly, she's not getting any younger and there been together foror so years, If she didn't want kids then she should have let her husband go so he could have a future with someone else.
Every interaction she has with her husband I kept thinking 'poor Neil' I felt sorry for him for staying with Suzanna who felt to me was completely dead inside.
If Neil was some drunk or cheater I would have accepted her and Alejandros relationship but he wasn't some awful husband.
He didn't deserve having Suzanna as a wife,
Another character I felt sorry for was Vivi, she was definitely under appreciated by her family, Everything she did for her husband, her mother inlaw, she felt like more of the maid, you could tell she loved her husband more than he loved her and even though Suzanna isn't tecniqully her biological daughter she raised and loved her as her own anyway, I felt Suzanna to be a complete bitch towards her.
Reading this book actually made me depressed, literally drained of energy, Yes I could have given up, could have tossed it aside and forgot I ever picked it up, but the weird thing was was that I just had to finish it, it became an addiction towards the last quarter, however messed up the characters were I just had to know how their lives ended.
Jojo Moyes did a great job in story telling, weaving all these characters together, I don't know if I regret reading this book though, its not like I learnt anything,
If I had to describe to someone what this book is about, I don't know what I would say, I'm still not even sure what it was about.
A women's journey of being a bitchy unhappy depressed women to finding happiness
Is this book sad
Tearjerker
Does this have a HEA
So glad I'm done! I found The Peacock Emporium to be slow and slightly uninteresting, The main character was selfish and I was unempathetic to her,
I was disappointed with this story as so far I have loved every book I have read of Jojo's, but I just felt that this fell below the mark in my opinion the story line could have been more exciting and the characters more loveable.
Un drama encantador sobre la familia y el amor escrito maravillosamente,
Otra historia asombrosa de Jojo Moyes!!!,
Suzzana, una chica defectuosa e infeliz, es frecuentada y moldeada por su pasado a pesar de que ella sabe poco sobre ello.
Su vida se ha puesto al revés y en la búsqueda de una manera de vivir una vida auténtica y feliz, abre su tienda obstinadamente siguiendo su corazón.
La tienda se convierte en el catalizador para una nueva vida y una nueva confianza para Suzzana, aprender quién es y encontrar el amor, la amistad y disfrutar de la compañía de otros.
Debo reconocer que al principio no me gustó Suzanna, pero una vez que entiendes más sobre su vida familiar y ver cómo su carácter evolucionas, tiendes a tomarle cariño.
Me aloque un poco cuando leí facetas de misma en Suzzana y en otros personajes interesantes que conforman esta historia tan sensatamente contada.
Jojo inyecta la vida en sus personajes de una manera que ningún otro autor maneja,
Suzanna Peacock y la gente que forma parte de su vida, sus penas, sus pequeñas alegrías, sus agonías, sus errores, todo es pintado por Jojo Moyes de una manera deliciosa.
En su estilo característico hay suspenso, sorpresas aleatorias y por supuesto cada personaje es único,
La historia se divide en el tiempo, visitamos el pasado para obtener algo de la historia de fondo y luego llegar al presente con Suzanna y la acumulación de los personajes y la historia que eventualmente todos se enlazan entre sí.
Suzanna es el personaje principal, pero esto no se hace evidente hasta más adelante en la historia, Mientras disfrutaba de esta historia, me pareció que al principio iba a paso lento y no fue hasta que conseguí llegar hasta después de la paginaque realmente la historia me mantuvo adicta a su lectura.
Y es que a medida que cada capítulo comienza el lector es inicialmente envuelto en el misterio acerca de quién es el sujeto y que eran los eventos que estaban teniendo lugar.
Sin embargo, como el libro evoluciona, el misterio se resuelve y el rompecabezas de las vidas de los personajes toma forma.
El libro no es inusual en su mayoría, ya que implica una multitud de emociones humanas y de relaciones marcadas pero es un libro con muchos mensajes fuertes.
Es la historia de las diferencias generacionales, las culturas cambiantes y la construcción de la confianza, Este último es especialmente difícil después de toda una vida de negación y fabricación,
Hay algunos temas clave en los que trabaja Jojo Moyes: el tema de las mentiras y el engaño, los roles que el dinero y el estatus juegan en la compleja red del matrimonio es otro.
El libro tomó algunas vueltas que no esperaba, pero en última instancia es una historia de cómo la familia forma nuestra creencia en sí mismo y las decisiones simples que toman las personas y la complejidad de por qué lo hacen.
En algunos puntos, esta historia se quedó rezagada, pero yo estaba lo suficientemente interesada para seguir leyendo, Me alegro de haberlo hecho, ya que me pareció un libro muy satisfactorio y gratificante, La forma en que maneja estos contratiempos es una medida de hasta dónde ha llegado en su desarrollo personal.
Se podría pensar que una novela con tantas capas puede complicar demasiado las cosas y obstaculizar el proceso de lectura, pero honestamente puedo decir que esto nunca fue un factor para mí, sólo disfrutaba sumergirme en la vida de las personas fascinantes que Jojo Moyes creó.
La historia me encantó la traducción, no tanto, I won this ARC in a GoodReads giveaway, I've been a big fan of Jojo Moyes since first discovering her work in One Plus One, While this one was a bit difficult to get into at first, by the time I was halfway through the book I was entranced and completely moved by the final pages.
Oh good grief! This was boring and long and painful to read, I cant really articulate the gist of the plot clearly or these most of them mindless characters, There were a couple of shining, but alas, you cant depend on two people to carry the load of those characters not pulling their weight.
These folks are unable to communicate fully and honestly they are unable to make confident decisions, They are good at harboring secrets, i, e. , domestic abuse, family genealogy, etc, They were very frustrating to read about, I picked this up because its a Jo Jo Moyes book and when have I ever been disappointed with one of her books The answer: Now.
JoJo Moyes knows how to pen a book filled with emotion and characters the reader grows to care deeply about.
I really loved this tale of selfdiscovery and coming to peaceful terms with the past, Suzanna's journey to understanding herself and her mother is meaningfully heartfelt, I also appreciated all of the other characters and their trials and tribulations,
I shed some tears in the reading, because Moyes can tug at the heartstrings like few other authors can do.
It's amazing how much one can truly care about a fictional character, but it happens throughout the course of this book.
I hesitate to talk too much about the characters because the discovery of each of them and their life trajectories is part of what makes this novel so good and the reading experience so ultimately joyful.
Thanks to Penguin US for sending me an advance reading copy, I voluntarily reviewed this book and all opinions are my own, I actually didn't finish this book, AtI decided to pull the plug, I found the book confusing and didn't care what happened, Lo siento mucho, pero ha sido imposible terminarlo, Y de veras lo he intentado, Comencé a leerlo con la esperanza de encontrar algo tan bien construido como "Yo antes de ti", pero, . . ni de lejos. Voy a intentar hacer esta reseña por partes, ya que hay varios puntos que quiero comentar:
Lo primero de todo es el comienzo del libro, el cual no tiene nada que ver con la sinopsis del libro.
La sinopsis cuenta sobre una chica llamada Suzzana que abre una tienda y en la cual conoce la vida de los clientes.
Me pareció interesante. Así que me dije: "vamos a intentarlo", Nada que ver. Comienza con un asistente de partos en un hospital del cual no sabes nada hasta que casi llegas a la mitad.
Y continua en la década de los, El salto te hace pensar que quizás ambas cosas estén relacionadas, pero, . . nada que ver!! Hay tantos personajes, tantas vidas que quiere contar, que al final no interesa ninguna, Y mira que me gustan las historias y la vida de las personas que estuvieron antes que nosotros, . . Me encantó El jardín olvidado de Kate Morton, soy fan de Downton Abbey, Pero ha sido imposible de seguir,
La redacción es muy espesa, Muy espesa, repito al menos a mi parecer, Y lenta Salta de un personaje a otro y cuenta tantas cosas, incluso de cosas que pasaron con anterioridad fuera de cámara por así decirlo, que es un sobreesfuerzo seguir adelante.
Otro punto a comentar, y no voy a nombrar a ningún personaje para no hacer spoiler, es que en ningún momento un hijo o hija puede parecerse a un pariente si no lo conoce.
Eso de que la personalidad se hereda, . . Lo siento, pero no. Desarrollamos la personalidad dependiendo del entorno donde vivimos, de nuestro padres, tíos, primos, amigos, Punto. Si hay algún familiar que no conocemos porque no lo hemos visto en toda nuestra vida, no podemos parecernos a él en lo referente a la personalidad, ya que su psicología no se ha desarrollado en el mismo entorno.
No puedes parecerte psicológicamente, no puedes ser ligero de cascos, no puedes ser mentiroso compulsivo, no puedes ser liberal, por ejemplo, si no has crecido rodeado de gente así.
El físico sí es hereditario y, cuidado, las expresiones son iguales en todos los individuos, Si mezclamos estas dos últimas cosas posiblemente tengamos la misma sonrisa o la misma mirada que nuestros hermanos o padres, y no necesariamente hemos tenido que vivir con ellos.
La gente suele confundir estas cosas a menudo, Y este libro lo hace, No en el mismo sentido que yo he descrito, pero algo parecido, Una madre puede decir que su hijo tiene la sonrisa de su padre, el cual se marchó cuando el niño tenía dos meses, pero no es porque sea igual a su padre, sino porque físicamente se le parece.
Ahora si al niño le gusta el helado de nata igual que a su padre, lo siento, pero eso no es heredado, es cuestión de gustos.
Podría calificar el libro, pero me parece descortés hacerlo cuando no he terminado de leerlo, Así que solo me voy a limitar a comentar todo lo que pienso y a dejar el número de estrellas para cuando me arme de valor y lo termine.
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