Cackle

This book was so poetic. The writing style is great and it also made a lot of sense in character, seeing how Annie was an English teacher. That's one thing I liked a lot, the second being how uneasy the book made me feel after Sophie showed up. Just for a bit, before I got to know her. The description, everyone's reactions to Sophie, told me there's something off.

I enjoyed Annie's journey a lot. We started off in the middle of her pity party and accompanied her in her journey to something new. A new job and a new place. And Rowan sounds like a really nice little town with friendly people and really good coffee, who wouldn't want to live in a place like that?

But even in this new place Annie continues her pity party and she is thinking and drinking and crying over her ex so much and so often. Surprisingly, though, that didn't annoy me as much as it normally would. I attribute that to the writing, because, okay, I get it, long relationship, you didn't see it coming, fine. But Annie kept making things harder for herself, she kept trying to hang on to something that was not there anymore.

On the other side, there's Sophie, and Sophie was great. She did everything right, she tried to help Annie and make her see her own worth. I may not completely agree with her methods, but no one's perfect.

I think the book falls in the feminism category, it is esentially about being your own woman, about making your own decisions and about not being on your knees for the first man that shows you attetion. I liked that. Annie was definitely this type of person, thinking she can't ever be happy without being tied up to a man. And when Sam dumped her, with no warning, she was lost and depressed. Sophie did a wonderful job at trying to show her, to teach her that happniess doesn't come from outside. I really liked Sophie for this.

Overall the book was great. It was recommended to me by my best friend and I am going to go and give thanks again for it because I really, really liked it. More than it, I want to read 'The Return', also by Rachel Harrison. 'The Return' is the first book the author published and I saw it was generally well received so I want to check it out. But until that, definitely give 'Cackle' a try. If you like everything empowering, witchy, and don't absolutely dislike spiders, it is a great book.

3.5 rounded up.

I picked up this book because I vaguely remembered enjoying the other things I'd read by this author and it's probably why I didn't DNF it.

The beginning and the ending of this book are pretty good, the middle section seemed to drag on and on. It's a cute story in many ways, it's also a story with a main character that can be relatable but also kind of annoying. She's a teacher but she doesn't seem to like students and has no delusions about being a great teacher, she doesn't really have friends and the one she has she doesn't seem to treat super nicely and the one she makes is more of a mother figure, she can't seem to get over her ex or more accurately the fantasy of who her ex was (that might be the most relatable part), in short she sounds like almost every millennial I know (I am one myself it's not disdain it's being real). I guess what I'm trying to say is if you're interested in a character exploration on the heart-broken millennial you might enjoy this book.

Chick-lit but with a Tim Burton atmosphere.

There is a touching, sweet friendship between the two women. I also enjoyed the very Muppet-y spider.

This is a fast read, nothing very complex or anything that you have to think about too hard.

It's not a horror novel, as people have said. I'm looking for spooky books t0 read this October and am striking out all over the place.

I will take the good reads genre nominees with a big grain of salt in the future.

Cute book though.