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Jessie Greengrass: High House (2022, Scribner) 3 stars

Review of 'High House' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

2.5 stars. I thought I'd like this novel more because I am anticipating the future that's predicted within. But, the story didn't tell me enough about any of the characters to relate to them, and there's very few of them. Like others, I thought the voices of two of the main characters sound very similar. I would barely have been able to tell them apart except for their relationships to the other two characters. So, for a novel that isn't character driven, I would expect things to happen. And while on a grand scale, they do, the characters, and we, are far from the action. I read this simple novel VERY quickly, expecting more. The novel skips around on a timeline a lot, so when things did happen, I found it anticlimactic.