Reviews for One True Ocean

The average rating for One True Ocean based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-07-30 00:00:00 Anna Rudzinska The story of three woman, Jenna, her mother Renee and Renee's sister Adeline. Jenna also has a much younger sister Elisabeth, although she doesn't have a great part to play. This is a book of loss, grief, death, relationships and secrets, told largely from Jenna's point of view with some short chapters telling Renee's story. I liked the setting of Maine but wasn't overly enamoured by any of the characters. I struggled with the concept of such a harsh and cold relationship between mother and daughter. There is also competition and antagonism between the sisters. Some of the descriptions were very evocative. Other parts kept me reading, even though I didn't like the characters overly, because I wanted to see how it all panned out. So this book left me with a mixed reaction. I liked some aspects and not others. At no point did I consider giving up reading. There was enough to keep me interested, even though I found some of the behaviour of characters bizarre at times. This story does jump around in time a lot, as it seeks to fill in the gaps of what really happened and events that have lingered with each of the main characters, affecting their decisions and behaviour. So, in that sense, it was an interesting exploration of character. I picked this book up at the library because I liked the cover. For a plucked off the shelf read, I wasn't disappointed. It is a debut novel so it will be interesting to see what this writer does next.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-09-05 00:00:00 Lee Morin This was a book I just picked up at the airport and I was very pleasantly surprised. I liked how she told the story from different characters' perspective.