Some books I just can’t connect with, and unfortunately Gossip by Beth Gutcheon was one of those. I was looking forward to this book – who doesn’t love some gossip and I thought the cover was really cute – but it just fell flat for me. The beginning started off slowly – way too slowly – and it was downhill for me from there. The story is narrated by Lovie Walker, yet the POV is divided amongst her and two other characters. There’s a lot of jumping between past and present and POV that made it hard for me to stick with what was happening. About a third of the way through the book, I gave up and started speed reading. There just wasn’t anything happening to keep my attention. I believe readers are supposed to take away that even the rich and privileged go through hardships, but I’m really not positive on that. I’ve seen other reviews that talk about a “shocking ending” so I went back and re-read it, but since I really didn’t have a clue who any of the characters were and had no attachment to them, I simply didn’t get it. Gossip wouldn’t be a recommendation from me.
