4. Sept.
Rating:4

If you don´t mind that it tells part of the story backwords, you´re not easily triggered and generally think the premise sounds interesting, don´t look for more information about this book and just read it. Even though I didn´t really get the ending (I read some interpretations of it and they make sense just fine), I really liked this book. I didn't expect it to be that dark. Sure, knowing in advance that events of Jake´s past will be told I maybe should have expected something like that, but I just thought she did one thing and not how f*cked up her life was. Her backstory was told really interestingly and I was intrigued by it much more than by the present day narration. Which does not mean I did not like the current events, they just moved much slower and I could not imagine where it was going. The book was written in a realistic way, making the people seem like they could really exist. I don´t read much contemporary, but because I sympathized with Jake, the structure of narration was new and compelling and the whole plot kept me hooked, I couldn´t put this book down. It´s not a book I could have read any day, it´s too sad for that, but I think I picked it at a good time and was positively surprised by it. Expecting more of a murder-mystery, I am glad I was "deceived" because I would not have given it a try otherwise. Maybe this will even leave me more willing to try new things reading-wise.

All the Birds, Singing: A Novel
All the Birds, Singing: A Novelby Evie WyldWyld, Evie