Book: Atonement

 Book: Atonement

Author: Ian McEwan

Pages: 351

This is my 33rd read for the year

In 1935 a young Briony Tallis saw an exchange between her older sister Cecilia and a boy Robbie that she misjudged.  When Robbie writes a letter to Cecilia and Briony, instead of giving it to her sister, reads the letter and starts to weave together a lie that will hurt so many around her and cannot be undone.  When Robbie is accused of something he doesn't do and is sent to prison and then to the War.  In the meantime, Briony grows up.  Cecilia cuts herself off from her family and Briony due to the accusation.  Briony realizes her mistake years later and wants to make ammends but she isn't sure it will ever make any difference, or make her sister forgive her.

This was a weird book.  I struggled with the writing style.  There were parts where the story was interesting but many where it just droned on.  And Briony is horrible.  Even in the end I had no warm feelings for her and what she did.  She was a brat from beginning to end.  The ending is not satisfying.

Stars: 3