Review:
McCarty’s The Jewel Box is an interesting cross between irreverent romp and heartfelt women’s fiction that manages to combine laughter and gritty realism, often on the same page. I found myself laughing out loud (literally – people stared) in the first couple of pages and on the whole, enjoyed the book very much.
On the downside, the book makes the classic first person error of having only one fully fleshed character – the narrator. Towards the middle of the book I got a bit frustrated with main character Cherie’s apparent lack of growth and the flatness of other characters, such as Nikki, her daughter, whom I would really like to have known more about.
I was never tempted to stop reading, though, because the writing style is engaging and the plot line entertaining. McCarty brings us a tale most of us can relate to, regardless of the decade we were born in. Too…
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