“Wonderstruck”

“Enjoyed this one well enough, but the ending was really into wrapping up all the events. Which was cool, but the number of characters and their stories was confusing enough that I had to keep reminding myself which character was which and that one of the characters did not have a baby with her brother. That’s the level of confusion for me here.

There was a lot of explaining the past. It’s kind of a problem because the reader doesn’t get to experience them first-hand and they lose a little emotional resonance.

Also, it was a book with a lot of pictures, yet it felt like it was doing a lot more “telling” at the end than “showing” which felt very odd for a book with such a key visual component.”