Wrong Highway Blog Tour

Today I'm participating in a blog tour for the book Wrong Highway by Wendy Gordon.       

It is 1986. Erica Richards lives in West Meadow, Long Island with her three young boys, newborn baby girl, and successful Wall Street analyst husband. But don’t be fooled by her seemingly placid suburban lifestyle. Erica is fierce, curious, uncompromising, and often impulsive. When her teenage nephew Jared rebels against his straight-laced parents Ron and Debbie, he turns to Erica for help, setting in motion a chain of events that will take all of them careening down a dangerous and twisty highway. Buckle your seatbelt, crank up the 80’s soundtrack, and learn how stunningly easy it is to keep BIG SECRETS.
“…Wrong Highway is a captivating debut novel…”–Kim Bissell, co-owner, Broadway Books, Portland, Oregon
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Purchase Links

Amazon | Itasca Books | Barnes & Noble

About Wendy Gordon

Wendy Gordon grew up in Bethesda, Maryland, and has lived in Boston, Chicago, and New York before finding her true home on the West Coast. She received a B.S. from Simmons College in Boston and an M.S. from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. She has been a journalist for over twenty-five years, publishing in newspapers, magazines, and electronic formats. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and children. This is her first book.

 

 

Wendy Gordon’s TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:

Monday, June 6th: The Magic All Around Us
Tuesday, June 7th: Lavish Bookshelf
Wednesday, June 8th: The Avid Reader
Thursday, June 9th: Thoughts on This ‘n That
Monday, June 13th: No More Grumpy Bookseller
Tuesday, June 14th: Sharon’s Garden of Book Reviews
Wednesday, June 15th: 5 Minutes for Books
Monday, June 20th: Good Girl Gone Redneck
Wednesday, June 22nd: BookNAround
Thursday, June 23rd: Why Girls are Weird
Monday, June 27th: Patricia’s Wisdom
Monday, June 27th: Chick Lit Central
Tuesday, June 28th: Puddletown Reviews
Wednesday, June 29th: Write Read Life
Tuesday, July 5th: Mama Vicky Says
Thursday, July 7th: Bloggin’ ‘Bout Books

My review:
When I started reading this book I was really excited the prologue had me hooked! I was also excited for the premise of 1980s suburbia (I love the 80s).  I enjoyed the back story about the Worlds Fair very much. Sadly that is the only redeeming quality I could find in this book.

 I would have to say overall I was very disappointed with this book for several reasons:

1. The book was too long: The author could have told this story with less pages. I felt like there was a lot of fluff or information we didn't need (it was wordy).

2. The book is sort of mundane, boring, whatever you would like to call it. As I said above it the prologue had me hooked but I quickly lost interest afterwards. I was hoping for a unique and different read but did not get what I was hoping for.

3. The main character has no redeeming qualities. While I can see Erica as being a real person, I found myself saying "what are you doing?" This of course got really annoying and spoiled the book for me.

Overall I would not recommend this book. The book is not a good or enjoyable read. It one does read it most likely will be forgotten soon after, (It is not a memorable book).

I would like to tank TLC Book Tours for letting me participate in this blog tour.