Ivy Noelle Weir

3.5/5 rounded down to 3 (GoodReads, get half-stars.)

This is definitely an interesting adaptation, but it fell flat for me in a few places. The characters didn't seem all that well-developed. One thing that majorly stuck in my craw was Martha pushing Mary, on her second day there, out of the house onto the streets of New York City alone with little more than "it's a grid!" As someone who has no sense of direction in the city and has been made fun of because "it's a grid!", this rankled me very badly. Made worse is when Martha worries about Mary being left alone in the house by herself not many pages later.

I like the updated setting and the intent, but for me, it wasn't the best execution.… (more)