I loved this save for the last 15% and, especially, the ending. This was very surprising but one of the most unique and best books at interweaving past and present. The characters were well formed, well written and the plot was certainly nothing I was expecting. I will definitely look for more from this author! Give this a try.

Supper Club comes out today in paperback, and you can purchase HERE.

I thought leaving home would be a liberation. I thought university would be a dance party. I thought I would live in a room vined with fairy lights; hang arabesque tapestries up on the wall. I thought scattered beneath my bed would be a combination of Kafka, coffee grounds and a lover's old boxer shorts. I thought I would spend my evenings drinking cheap red wine and talking about the Middle East. I thought on weekends we might go to Cassavetes marathons at the independent cinema. I thought I would know all the good Korean places in town. I thought I would know a person who was into healing crystals and another person who could teach me how to sew. I thought I might get into yoga. I thought going for frozen yogurt was something you would just do. I thought there would be red cups at parties.

And I thought I would be different.

I was not able to finish this book since I found the format and the timelines combined to be far too confusing to follow. I was just unable to follow the plot and unable to feel drawn to the characters or feel empathetic to their experiences.

I don’t know if it’s my age (63) or what, but I just couldn’t bring myself to care much about the main characters here. It seemed to take a very long time to get to the “meat” of the story which is the actual supper clubs and I lost interest partway through. The descriptions are very well written though!

Thanks to NetGalley, the author and publisher for an advanced reading copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

Wow! A powerful punch of a read about a very identifiable female experience. While I felt the second half drug a bit, I ultimately found Roberta’s story to be very moving. An added bonus here is the beautiful descriptions of the food; I certainly recognized the way food can offer us a complicated comfort in our darkest times. Loved it!

A unique read so involving characters that are so well written you feel like you know them.A story I was so involved in Incouldnt put it down.An author Inwill be following a book I will be recommending.#netgalley#supperclub

Nontraditional format with detailed discussions of how to prepare separate kinds of dishes sprinkled throughout the narrative. And, yet, it works seamlessly with the telling of Roberta’s 10 years as a young adult. Flawed people of average intelligence and wealth and some gender and racial diversity. Author did an unnervingly good job at conveying the constant whirlwind of thoughts, emotions and plans experienced simultaneously in the brain of an anxious person. Enjoyable story but also a little too close to home for me to fully sink into.

This book was so good! The characters were so well rounded, you felt like you actually knew them! The plot was so good you didn't want the book to end!

3/5 stars

I probably would have given it more stars if the end wasn't so completely disappointing.

This was a good premise of a book that did get confusing at times, because the timeline fluctuates between past and present. The past version of Roberta is pretty annoying, and Stevie is super toxic.
Overall it was good, but the ending was just TOO open ended and I didn't like that all.