The Yellow Envelope
by Kim Dinan
Pub Date: 01 Apr 2017
I wanted to like this because I have had fantasies of doing the same thing as the author: give up virtually of my stuff and travel with my husband. The trouble here was that it just wasn't a compelling read. She has a popular blog and I can see how that would be true. Pictures might have spiced things up a bit. But the voice she used felt like she was dragging her former self around by a rope, inching the story out a bit at a time. I think it could have been pieced together differently to draw me in, or, at the least, there could have been some kind of literary element (repetition, consistently inserted anecdotes from others' perspectives, or a more playful tone) to prevent the book from being a little boring.
It was interesting to see the adventures, I just didn't enjoy the presentation.
★★
