Trust Exercise : A Novel (Hardcover)

from strandbooks

ehhh...I was on the fence about giving Trust Exercise 2 1/2 stars or 3. I almost gave up on it but since there were only 90 pages left I decided to read these plot twists. Not worth it. Maybe the angst and teenage emotion/hormones were too real that it was equally horrifying and boring at the sam...

from CarrieWuj

Trending toward 4 stars....reading this book is an exercise in trusting the author. 3 stories stack here like Russian nesting dolls. My library had this tagged as ‘Romance' so I was expecting something ‘lighter' though I knew as a National Book Award winner it wouldn't be fluff. Still trying to w...

from tuf25995

Okay, I have a lot of questions. So first of all, What? I am of the mind that the first third of the book was Sarah's book? Is that right? I don't see that anyone else in the reviews I read came to that same conclusion so maybe I'm totally mistaken. That we're supposed to take Sarah's account of ...

from bobbieharv

From the description ("it takes until the book's stunning coda for the final piece of the puzzle to fall in place"), I was very pleased to receive this book and was excited to begin reading it. Suddenly, however, I found myself in the midst of some heavy sex scenes between two characters I barely...

from jostie13

The author makes really strong, consistent, and contrasting choices about style and voice in each section that gave me the false impression that there was going to be a masterful payoff. There is not. What's more, the overwrought overwriting of the first half of the novel, while clearly intention...