TBR Jar Review: Fixing Delilah by Sarah Ockler

I wasn’t too thrilled by the sound of this book, but I actually ended up quite enjoying it. 



This is the story about Delilah, a teenage girl who is having some trouble with her busy corporate mom. One night she climbs in her window after meeting a boy in the woods, only to find her mother waiting for her. Delilah’s estranged grandmother has died and the two must now travel to her lake house in order to take care of the funeral and sell the house. Delilah last saw her grandmother 8 years ago, having previously spent every summer with her grandparents at the lake house. But 8 years ago there was a big family fight and they left never to return. Until now. Being in the house agin prompts Delilah to go searching for the truth of what happened 8 years ago, but the people who know are reluctant to share. 

I quite liked this book. It was a pretty fast read, and that might have been its biggest downfall. There is a lot going on in this book; rekindling old relationships, starting new ones, family history, mental health issues. And that was a lot to cover in so relatively few pages, so some of it seemed kind of rushed. I am also currently reading “What I Thought Was True” by Huntley Fitzpatrick and some of the scenes in these two books were quite similar, e.g. a lover’s quarrel in a rain storm. That’s not the books fault of course, unless you consider this type of scene a cliche in YA contemporary romances. Which it might be, or I just happened to read two books at once with the same type of scene. I did enjoy the scene in both books, so maybe it’s a cliche for a reason. 

I gave this book 3 stars out of 5. I liked it, but it definitely wasn’t the most hard hitting YA Contemporary I’ve ever read. 


The next pick from the jar is “Storm of Steel” By Ernst Jünger, a memoir from a German soldier on the Western front during WWII. This is apparently the memoir of a soldier who thought the war was a good thing, which I am not used to reading about, so I guess this will be a different perspective for me. 

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