A Ticket to Ride: A Novel by Paula Mclain
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Book Reviews of A Ticket to Ride: A Novel
Book Review: Beautifully written tale of vulnerability and bad choices
Summary: 5 Stars
I thought this was a great book! And an acquaintance who read it said "boy, McLain really knows how to get into the head of an adolescent!" That is certainly true - but Ticket to Ride is no teen-age novel. Poetic writing and fast action highlight a timeless tale of the choices we make for the wrong reasons - love, a need to belong, and misplaced loyalty. This is a carefully constructed story of two intertwined relationships that builds suspense gradually to a dynamite ending that keeps you on edge till the last sentence. Book Review: haunting & beautifully written
Summary: 5 Stars
This novel is a treasure -- it simultaneously captures the hopefulness of a coconut-scented summer's day and the loneliness of a girl who yearns for female intimacy. Who hasn't been there? McLain's descriptions of Jamie's internal and external worlds bring it all back.
Having read all of McLain's poetry and her memoir, her new novel is no surprise. The writing is sensual and heartbreaking, the study of character honest and deep. The secrets that connect Jamie and her uncle will haunt you just as they do their characters.
If you liked Dorothy Allison's Ruth Anne in [...] out of NC or Carson McCullers's Frankie in The Member of the Wedding or Marilyn Robinson's Ruth in Housekeeping, then you'll like Paula McLain's Jamie in A Ticket to Ride.
Read this novel & then go back and read McLain's other work. You won't be sorry.
Book Review: A reminder of summers past
Summary: 4 Stars
This book reminded me of the most naive, beautiful, and dangerous part of my own adolescence. That time when falling for a friend was like falling in love for the first time--in fact it is falling in love; so intense that the rest of the world falls away leaving two lone souls. McLain captures the nuance of this time poetically (who would of thunk bell bottoms and beer cans could be poetic!) and emotional insight. It's a page turner. Book Review: A Lyric Song to Adolescence
Summary: 5 Stars
I cried both times I came to the achingly sad and hopeful end of Paula McLain's book, where all the beautiful threads of desire and loss, spun out in her lyric voice, were woven together in the simple sentence, "Was there anything sadder than starting your life?" Her characters make my heart ache, for they represent so deeply what is flawed and ragged about all of us.Book Review: Gorgeously written, but...
Summary: 3 Stars
It's gorgeously written, so I was somewhat surprised that I didn't love A Ticket to Ride. The main reason was the going back and forth between the present and the past, which I found distracting - just when I was beginning to get involved in Jamie's and Fawn's story, the novel took me back years, to find out about Suzette. And while the end made it clear why this narrative device was necessary, it didn't make it any more engaging.
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