'What is Missing' Book Review #22

First off, thank you to Michael Frank for the gifted copy in exchange for an honest review. Sometimes, honest reviews means you have to be honest even if you don't want to because you feel bad. Sadly, this is one of those reviews. Before I get into how I felt during this, here is the synopsis of 'What Is Missing?' from Goodreads:

"Costanza Ansaldo, a half-Italian and half-American translator, is convinced that she has made peace with her childlessness. A year after the death of her husband, an eminent writer, she returns to the pensione in Florence where she spent many happy times in her youth, and there she meets, first, Andrew Weissman, an acutely sensitive seventeen-year-old, and, soon afterward, his father, Henry Weissman, a charismatic New York physician who specializes in―as it happens―reproductive medicine.

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With three lives each marked by heartbreak and absence―of a child, a parent, a partner, or a clear sense of identity―What is Missing offers Costanza, Andrew, and Henry the opportunity to make themselves whole when the triangle resumes three months later in New York, where the relationships among them turn and tighten with combustive effects that cut to the core of what it means to be a father, a son, and―for Costanza―a potential mother."

For the life of me, I could not connect with the characters. Which usually means that I dislike the story. And it might just be me because I know a lot of people enjoyed this book. The plot was good but I couldn't see character development and I also couldn't connect with the characters.

Another thing that bothered me, and I might be the only person in the world is the fact that book did not have chapters. It was just separated by small chunks. So it felt like it took a lot of effort just to read this one.

I'm super sad that I didn't enjoy it like I thought I would. I would recommend people to read this because everyone's thoughts are different!