They used one another to act out fantasies, ones that had already been described in depth.
There also wasn't any depth to the feelings between Beth and Sean. There was never any real depth added to Beth and Sean's feelings toward Dennis and Tiffany. The same goes for Sean's character with the continuous rehashing of his dead wife's aneurysm and stroke history-and how it was so horrible that she didn't want to have sex with him because of how extreme her pain was. It seemed like a ploy by the author to make Beth more sympathetic.
But it didn't seem like she was even mentioning it as part of the grief. It would be reasonable for a person to grief and to obsess over the loss of their friend in such a traumatic way. This was set two months after 9/11 and he had supposedly died when the World Trade Center collapsed. An example is Beth's continuous grief over Dennis. I knew five pages in that this book was going to be boring and, in that aspect alone, I was not disappointed.The book was excessively repetitive on topics that weren't really all that important to the story-line.
Hardcover (September 1st, 2015): $16.The Switch was a really bad book. Juvenile Fiction / Family / Multigenerational. Kansas State Reading Circle Recommended ReadĪ Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Books SelectionĪ Smithsonian Notable Book for Children Product Details Savvy and Scumble have been nominated for over 30 state awards “Eccentricity abounds, with vibrant supporting characters…Gypsy carries on the family traditions with aplomb.”-Horn Book “Law tenderly handles the challenges of having a grandparent with Alzheimer’s, highlighting the power of familial love…Readers will be caught up in this snowy, magical adventure and the characters’ efforts to balance their true, sparkly selves with growing up.”-Booklist “Much like authors Deborah Wiles or Patricia Reilly Giff, Law contrasts warm family support with personal despair and hardship, nicely balancing her dramatic action with stability and optimism… Law has again told a story with as much heart as creativity.”-School Library Journal “Along with turning her increasingly self-confident protagonist's fondness for spontaneous twirling into a thematic leitmotif, salts the narrative with wonderfully silly words and the cast with helpful, warmhearted allies.”-Kirkus Reviews
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