Reviews for The four of us

The average rating for The four of us based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-09-22 00:00:00 Vic Tomas Snore. Characters were shallow, plot was canned and never quite developed. Love the idea of the small southern town and a group of its women trying to improve their lives, but it just never took shape!

Review # 2 was written on 2019-12-30 00:00:00 Tommy Johnston Overall, I liked this book. I didn't like some of the stereotypes the author used (for example, the Indian family who owned the motel at the interstate exit in southern Alabama, and all the black service workers). I was 3/4 of the way through the novel when I finally understood the title, and I think that should have been evident earlier. It took a long time for her to set the scene. I understand that she wanted to create empathy for the characters, and that takes time, but it seemed like lots of character-building and not moving the story along for more than the first half of the book. Some of the character growth seemed to happen off-page -- or maybe just too suddenly. I was reading along, and then suddenly a couple is moving in together and taking on responsibility for some extra kids; a secondary character suddenly does something that negatively affects a whole bunch of characters (primary and secondary), and that surprised me. I didn't see it coming, and I think I should have. I was mostly satisfied with the ending; it's probably how I would have wanted the characters to end up. I might have made some tweaks.