It took me a few times to get through the rough start of this book, and to piece together where the story was going. While the setting and the action appealed to me (a librarian), I felt the overwhelming sadness of an obsessed character searching through the corpse of the past. Sadly, I ended up not finishing the book after several attempts.

Will be re-reading for Book Club next month.

I wasn't sure if I liked the book about midway through, but I finished it thinking I identified more with the younger character who saw Olive in their lives than with Olive, herself, although she reminded me a little of my grandmother.
It was a different view of life than what I usually read, backwards from near the end, when memory is undependable and the body is more of a hinderance than a pleasure. When habit is more comforting that dealing with newness, but all of the characters were surprising in their own ways.

It's funny how reading the book takes me to the places I am most familiar with by the end of the book. I've been to the places in New England he talks about and by this time, the rest of the country feels like a strange land.
Overall, a insight from a perspective we rarely see, and a flavor that makes the commonplace seem so much stranger. The stories of the people he meets are the best part, and the scarcity is not unfamiliar, it is sometimes hard to get people to trust you when you are just passing through, although, sometimes that can be a freeing opportunity.

Interesting take on the whole fairy tale scheme of things. Enjoyed the characterization, although the Sleeping Beauty twist was telegraphed WAY early.

Was a deeper exploration of what it means to have and lose an identity than I was expecting. Very interesting, and very thought provoking

A solid tale that is still chilling even with the predictable plot, possibly because you know what will happen. Left me despairing of the hopeless pain of existence we all have at times

I really need to stop reading these in a day, need to go back a savor the moments

Solid space opera with a lot of political subterfuge and characters written as emerging from a toalitarian state that had failed them, to re-discovering how to rule humanely.

Didn't catch my attention, and gave up after a couple of chapters.

A good read, the villains were a little underwhelming, and some of the reversals were very cinematic in the reading, the character update was OK, but looking forward to see how the writer develops with these characters. Did not so much like the call outs to all the stock characters, and the women's names were, well, unfortunate.

I tried several times to get into the book, but there were too many episodes of overly expository writing that just made me lose interest. The multiple POV switching was annoying, as it made clear what was going on from the beginning and it was not interesting enough to sustain me. I am usually a huge werewolf fan but this particular take on the genre did not do it for me.