nerd teacher [books] reviewed The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce (Harold Fry, #1)
Recently retired, sweet, emotionally numb Harold Fry is jolted out of his passivity by a …
Completely adorable but takes a bit to get into.
3 stars
The story felt completely adorable, even charming. There were a lot of aspects that were pretty enjoyable and a little cute.
But it was rather slow to start, and it felt like the premise wasn't fully fleshed out in the beginning. I couldn't get my head around the fact that a letter from an estranged friend that read varying degrees of "I'm dying of cancer" would prompt someone to start walking 600+ miles to get to them, but I suppose it was due to the mostly predictable spin that was being set up that made the beginning... pretty dull.