Whew, finally finished reading 'Alles is relatief' (everything is relative) by Marjolein Vrijenhoek. No more accidentally reading until way past bedtime because you completely forgot about the time.
Totally not my genre though, but her writing style is just so easy to read. So it was too easy to just keep on reading to see what'd happen next.
Basically a woman with her 2 kids go to a camping in France. She just had a nasty divorce behind her. She just wanted to spend the time with her kids and out of nostalgia because she used to go to a camping too as kid.
So, even though she was not planning to pick up any guys there, she did manage to meet one that she likes a lot. But then something happened and she got confronted with her ex again.
Yadda, yadda.
Like I said, not my genre. But damn, that was an easy read. :P Modern language, written in a way that is easy to relate to. That was her first book too, so I think she's got a lot of potential there.
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@2ck Largely really that, the language used. They're talking normally, doing confrontations the way I could do as well. Plus as an autistic person, it is kind of fascinating for me to see other people's (and in this case it would be the writer's) thought processes that leads to a certain action. This story was largely sane enough for me to enjoy.
So even if it was not my genre (dealing with divorce, with a potential new love, with old memories and getting over it, with maybe losing somebody near you) it was relatable enough.
The writer really did her research, and her own life was also a large influence on the story. The story was realistic in a way that makes you want to read to see how it ends up. Every character had their own behavior and you can't please everybody was very clear to see.
@trinsec OK. I think those aren't reasons I would read something, so I don't really understand, but thanks for explaining
@2ck If you mean why I grabbed that book, it was just random. My mother has an ebook subscription, 8 random novels every month. I have to download it for her and put on her ereader. As such I have access to those books as well and can read any of them anytime too.
So if I feel like reading something, sometimes I grab one from that collection and never quite know what to expect. The title looked interesting enough to me in this case.
This way I have read some nice gems, but also stupid books that I just cannot finish.
@trinsec what do you like about it besides it being easy to read?