Every other weekend, Hope and Eden—backpacks, Walkmans, and homework in hand—wait for their father to pick them up, as he always does, at a strip-mall bus stop. It’s the divorce shuffle; they’re used to it. Only this weekend, he’s screwed up, forgotten, and their world will irrevocably change when a stranger lures them into his truck with a false story and smile.
More than twenty years later, Hope is that classic New York failure: a playwright with only one play produced long ago, newly evicted from an illegal sublet, working a humiliating temp job. Eden has long distanced herself from her family, and no one seems to know where she is. When the man who abducted them is up for parole, the girls might be able to offer testimony to keep him jailed. Hope sets out to find her sister—and to find herself—and it becomes the journey of a lifetime, taking her from hippie communes to cities across the country. Suspenseful and moving, Eden asks: How much do our pasts define us, and what price do we pay if we break free? ~taken from Goodreads
More than twenty years later, Hope is that classic New York failure: a playwright with only one play produced long ago, newly evicted from an illegal sublet, working a humiliating temp job. Eden has long distanced herself from her family, and no one seems to know where she is. When the man who abducted them is up for parole, the girls might be able to offer testimony to keep him jailed. Hope sets out to find her sister—and to find herself—and it becomes the journey of a lifetime, taking her from hippie communes to cities across the country. Suspenseful and moving, Eden asks: How much do our pasts define us, and what price do we pay if we break free? ~taken from Goodreads
This book... this book was something. Eden is a very well written book. I liked the author's style and the overall story itself was interesting enough to keep my turning the pages. There was just something that just didn't make me love it.
I think I was expecting a mystery or thriller type of book and I was wrong in that assumption. This reads more like a memoir, the "whats happens after" a thriller.
This story is also a very choppy read. There are characters thrown in here and there. The backstories of these characters were less than interesting and not even relevant to the overall story. I wanted to get back to the "meat" and quit filling my reading time with "side dishes".
Overall, this was just an okay read for me. It was quick, yet really slow paced. I mainly read to find out what exactly happened to the girls when they were kidnapped. Then I did get to the end and wasn't "wowed" or even fulfilled. There was just something missing to this novel. I am not quite sure what.
"Eden" by Andrea Kleine is available now. It was a 3 star read in my opinion.
Thanks to Netgalley and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for allowing me a copy to read and give my honest review.
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