Kezia Duah's Reviews > Hello Beautiful

How exactly do you describe this feeling of “I didn’t like the characters or the events of the book, but the book was still awesome?!” Yes, that is the predicament I found myself in by the end and during the writing of this review.

I just love a book with intricacies that is still done in a simple writing form. There were many deep issues that could be dissected for years in this one and I felt everything kept winding in a way I didn’t expect throughout the book. Honestly, I didn’t know what to expect at all even after reading the description and unpredictability is always great in a book.

There is always this feeling of “How dare you?” when a book makes me cry, especially with this one since I didn’t even like the characters. The characters as people sucked! But the characters as characters were written so well. I feel like I could easily describe them if I ever were to talk about them, mainly Julia, Sylvie, and William.

To my comment about them sucking as people, I get the sense that that wasn’t the intention of the book. We are given a chance here to read about the complicatedness of family and also the demons that everyone has. I loved the bond that the sisters had and the complicatedness of their relationship throughout the book, but when I think about it, this one is about really about William and everyone is just living in his world. Honestly, I consider him the villain of the story which I feel bad for saying because what he went through mentally was real, and I really did feel sorry for him. I am just personally not a fan of feeling like people get to get away with things because of their health or emotional state. Also, this constant “I have no choice” gets really annoying after a while.

Again, great book and great writing but not so great characters or great events! I would still recommend!!