August 2022 Review #10 Vinegar Girl

Vinegar Girl

Written by Anne Tyler

About

Retelling of ‘Taming of a Shrew’ By William Shakespeare. Kate Battista spends her time taking care of the house and her scientist father, as well as her little sister. Her father is about to have a Scientific breakthrough with the help of his assistant, Pyotr. The problem is Pyotr is about to be deported and without his help Dr. Battista will not be able to Succeed. As always he’s gonna need the help of Kate to make sure Pyotr doesn't get deported.

Review

This story brought back so many good memories. The first one that brought up good memories was that Kate works in a day care which I used to do before my health made it so that I couldn’t work. The second one is that Chatty Cathy( an old doll that talks) was brought up. When I was younger my mother Sold dolls and at one point she had a Chatty Cathy doll and I used to talk all the time (thanks ADHD) so it became a joke that I was a Chatty Cathy.

    I enjoyed this book, it had amazing characters Like the main character Kate is the perfect example of a ‘Diamond in the Rough’ She has a very rough exterior and seems like she doesnt care and absolutely hates her job, but in reality she is just guarded and she puts others first and she is a genuine caregiver, she just lacks when it comes to social skills. She takes a lot after her father when it comes to social skills. The other main Character Pyotr is a big sweetheart, who becomes smitten with Kate pretty much right away and he is absolutely Hilarious. 

    The only thing I disliked about this book is the ending felt super rushed, I felt like it could have used at least another 50 pages minimum. 

    I ended up giving this book a 4.5 instead of a 5 which I would have rather given is because of how rushed the ending was but, other than that I extremely enjoyed this book.

Likes

• How funny this book is I was practically chuckling every other page

• All of the character each one has flaws and perfections

Dislikes

• The ending felt very rushed

Quotes I love

-“Chances are she’ll stop soon enough, once her fingers grow so long that she pokes both her eyes out.’ ” -Kate

- “Oh. Since eighth grade, maybe. I don’t know. I just couldn’t take any more of that Chatty Cathy act” -Kate

- “Well, in my country they say that you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.” -Kate

-“But why you would want to catch flies, hah? Answer me that, vinegar girl.”- Pyotr

4.5 /5 ⭐️

Info

Trigger warning-  none

Spice level- 0 / 5 🌶

Numbers of pages-237

Publish date- June 2016

Awards- None

Genres- Retelling, Romance, Humor