Did I like The Accidental? Hmmm...

I'm not sure whether I really appreciated the artsy style of it all or whether I thought it was just plain pretentious?

The story itself doesn't have much meat to it, it's all about the characters and how their four individual parts make up one whole dysfunctional family. Then along comes Amber, this girl who the author tries really hard to portray as a worldly, super enlightened hippy chick. Amber teaches them all a lesson in their own ways, she makes them "realise" stuff... you know the drill. Not much really happens but there is a lot of learning and fancy prose - there's even some poetry!

Like I said. Artsy.

That's not to say I didn't enjoy the aesthetic prose though, it's refreshing to read a book where the writing can really wow you. And the opening chapter was amazing! I'm just not sure the story held up against it, despite the nice twist at the end.

Reading challenge: a book about a family