Tigers in Red Weather
Liza Klaussmann
Fiction
This book is a wild ride. Not a
particularly good ride, but once you start, you have to keep going until the
end.
Tigers in Red Weather is the
story of Nick (Nick is a woman and I almost tossed the book aside when I
realized this) and Helena, two cousins who have grown up together on the East
coast. Following World War II, Nick married Hughes and Helena found love
with Avery in LA. They both had children and for one glorious summer, they all
converge on the house Helena and Nick own called Tiger House.
I disliked many, many things
about this book. Nick’s name, for one. All the back-and-forth in time, too. It
got real confusing, real fast. I need a linear timeline to enjoy a novel. I
hated all the characters. Nick was a bitch, Helena was pathetic…I could go on
and on but I’ll spare you. I felt like I was reading the final draft of a novel
assignment for a college class, if that makes any sense. You know that feeling
you get when you’re reading something and there’s so much description and
“perfect” dialogue but you don’t feel like you’re seeing the real characters
and their actions seem fake? About halfway through I still wasn’t sure I would
finish, but then I figured I might as well see how life turned out for all
these horrible people.
I would not recommend Tigers in
Red Weather. There’s no one to root for and the skipping around in time is
annoying.
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