Our annual evening party was held and we had a short discussion on July’s book, Glory Over Everything by Kathleen Grissom who also wrote The Kitchen House which all of us had read and loved a few years ago. Glory Over Everything is the sequel to The Kitchen House. The average rating was 3.75 so a fairly good rating but the book was not as well written as her previous book in our opinion.
All of us found the book to be engaging and enjoyed the Underground Railroad journey that Jamie takes to rescue Pan. The main criticism was that no one really liked the main character, Jamie Pyke. Jamie was a weak and flawed person that made several poor decisions during the book so it was difficult to embrace him as a lead character. We did like the love story between Jamie and Caroline as well as most of the outlying characters such as Pan, Robert and Sukey. Some of us questioned the ending of the book and how plausible it was that Jamie could live with his a white baby, Pan and Robert without drawing attention to themselves so the author could have done more to tighten up the book’s finish.
We will be reading Her Every Fear by Peter Swanson for August.
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