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Really Good Actually unanimously won the BOTM vote last month, it had great headline reviews and billed as “hilarious and profound” but unfortunately our book club found it quite the opposite.
Most of us (except one DNF) managed to follow Maggie through her first chaotic year of being newly separated from husband Jon on the path to divorce.
We managed to get to the end of a book that we all felt had a few good points but largely missed the mark for us. Maybe because we are all older and wiser than Maggie or maybe because it was just boring. Even the millennials in our club agreed.
We all found it very difficult to relate to the central character and found her frustratingly selfish and immature. It was disappointing that her to-be ex-husband seemed to define her and without him she was lost and intent on self destruction; a state that she managed to maintain for a whole year!
There were elements of the writing we liked, but the book seemed like it was written for TV adaptation. Even accepting this, It still lacked a story, nothing really happened.
When our club discussed what we would like to happen next for Maggie, we again unanimously decided that we really didn’t care.
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