Housebreaking by Colleen Hubbard
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
Release Date: April 19th 2022
Rating: ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
I am genuinely unsure if this book was genuinely as uninteresting and predictable as it often felt to me, or if it is such a brilliant metaphor I am just unable to rise to the author’s expectation. I get that dismantling the house is dismantling a life and tumultuous family history, but I am not sure this creates any real growth for anyone. The cast of characters that orbit Del as she takes on this spite-project are interesting, and they certainly undergo change. However, when the story wraps up, everyone is just doing basically the same things in the same small town. Granted, that may be a much more realistic take on human nature, but I am not sure I needed to spend an entire novel’s worth of words watching Del make life infinitely harder for herself to get that message. I would genuinely say to anyone asking about this book: I don't know if it was good, but I think every reader will get something out of it.
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