Kristin Hannah- "Distant Shores"

    Here I am sitting on the couch trying to find a word that best describes this book. The one word that keeps coming up is irritating. That's it, the actual word irritating. Can I just make a simple observation and say that Kirstin Hannah never ends a book? I have read five books by her and almost every time I turn the page thinking there is more only to see the acknowledgments. Now I understand that in real life you don't have neat endings like in fairy tales and it is probably why she does this. Her stories are about real life struggles, so why wouldn't it end like a real life scenario, but to me her stories never really build up to where it can end ike that. Especially in this one.

Heeey, it's me..a book.

   In Distant Shores, we meet a couple who live in a nice little beach town in Oregon. Right off the bat they are having issues and both are wondering if any of it's enough anymore. Let me just say that the husband, Jack, is a compete jerkwad. An ex-pro football player who only cares about fame and fortune constantly thinks about himself and how he can get it all back and become young again (douche alert). All the while his wife, Elizabeth, a.k.a. Birdie, is wondering what her life has become and is lost. She used to paint and is scared to start again. Basically she has lost her passion. To be honest, I am finding it hard to summarize this book. My mind wondered waaay too much for me to even really remember the details. I find that it was just a lump. Hey I am a book, here are my issues and characters and oh I am done. There wasn't much too it in my opinion.

One thing that just bugs the crap out of me is the blurb. It tries to enhance the book, but ends up just making it dull. The whole time reading I was waiting for the details that the blurb described and it never happened. DAMN YOU BLURB! Like I said, by the end of it I had one feeling. Irritation.