Book Club chose Jonathan Evison’s All About Lulu which I got on Kindle. The book club member who recommended the book for us had just finished Evison’s The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving and this was available in audiobook form (and I needed a new audio book) so I decided to do two books at the same author.
No one in the book club liked All About Lulu. The characters weren’t likable, the story went nowhere and none of us understood the character’s continued obsession Lulu.
The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving was more of the same. The only positive thing about this book was that it at least had some closure, if wrapped up a little too cleanly.
Basic story development of Evison’s writing that put me off: it’s written from a complete male perspective. I’ve read a lot of books written by men that were fine. I just finished the Dan Brown novel after all. But this was from a male perspective that was annoying and petty. As I read the characters of these two books, I thought: these guys are jerks and would not want them in my life. Another writing device that Evison employed was intimating at the beginning of the story that something horrible happened but wouldn’t tell you until the end of the book what that horrible thing was. I was so irritated by this for All About Lulu that I went off to find the spoiler so I could get through the rest of the book. Suspense and the big reveal was not handled that well.
Now I know not to read any more books by Evison.
