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A review by thereadingrunnner
The Ingenue by Rachel Kapelke-Dale
3.0
3.5⭐️
I received a copy of this book in a goodreads giveaway in exchange for my honest review.
I enjoyed this book and thought it was powerful in many ways despite not always being well executed. It had a lot of moments where my mind would drift but the overall concept was a good one on a challenging subject. There are many layers to this book and a lot of troubled and unhealthy relationships, all centered around Saskia, a once pianist prodigy turned standardized test question writer just trying to make ends meet... but what went wrong?
This novel explores mother- daughter relationships, father-daughter relationships, childhood friend relationships and how they change over the years into adulthood, and most in depth, the relationship of an abuser with his victim from the victim pov.
Things felt a little scattered at times, but there were a lot of good elements here. Worth a read and highly thought provoking.
Sidenote: The main character happens to also be a runner (a New Balance trainers reference!!) who also listens to Van Morrison. Bonus points just for these 2 things, lol.
I received a copy of this book in a goodreads giveaway in exchange for my honest review.
I enjoyed this book and thought it was powerful in many ways despite not always being well executed. It had a lot of moments where my mind would drift but the overall concept was a good one on a challenging subject. There are many layers to this book and a lot of troubled and unhealthy relationships, all centered around Saskia, a once pianist prodigy turned standardized test question writer just trying to make ends meet... but what went wrong?
This novel explores mother- daughter relationships, father-daughter relationships, childhood friend relationships and how they change over the years into adulthood, and most in depth, the relationship of an abuser with his victim from the victim pov.
Things felt a little scattered at times, but there were a lot of good elements here. Worth a read and highly thought provoking.
Sidenote: The main character happens to also be a runner (a New Balance trainers reference!!) who also listens to Van Morrison. Bonus points just for these 2 things, lol.