![]() ![]() ![]() It’s easier to ignore cause of her age, but her storyline just didn’t hold any interest for me much. She goes to her mother’s old home hoping to find her and is focused on starting a new family with the other residents. Zoey ran from her father and stepmother’s home because there was no love for her there. I guess you could say this book is about connections. ![]() The book also follows several ghosts as well as Lizbeth’s estranged son Oliver. The home she moves into also includes some strange and compelling residents such as Charlotte (a henna artist with a past she is running from) Mac (a chef who is still grieving someone who can’t quite let go of) Lizbeth (newly dead and still angry) Lucy (sister to Lizbeth who is afraid to leave her home) and Frasier (seems to be the equivalent of a super to the building). “Other Birds” follows Zoey Hennessey who finally before she starts college, has moved to Mallow Island, South Carolina, to live in her deceased mother’s condo. And I think that Allen tried to force-fit a few things that just didn’t work. ![]() And I think that due to that I wasn’t able to settle with any of the characters at all. Maybe because the grief in these pages just crowded out everything else. Instead this book seems to be missing that. Somehow in her other books she’s always been able to transport me to a fictional town where it seemed magic leaked around the edges. I absolutely love her older books and this one just didn’t do it for me. I have been waiting on a new Sarah Addison Allen book for years. ![]()
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