Eleanor Oliphant was a bit of a snooze...

 

Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine

by Gail Honeyman

3/5 stars

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Eleanor Oliphant is the story of a young woman who has survived a mysterious tragedy.

At first, I thought it was the story of a woman on the spectrum. Maybe it was both.

It took me a long while to get into this story.

It starts very very slow, and then when it starts to pick up for a while it feels pretty predictable. There was an interesting twist at the end, but once you were about 2/3 of the way in, except for the twist, it felt like you really knew where it was going.

I guess I'm glad I finished because I really dislike abandoning a read, but I just felt lukewarm about this one.