Book Review: Where'd You Go, Bernadette

Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple

GoodReads Synopsis:

Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply, Mom.

Then Bernadette disappears. It began when Bee aced her report card and claimed her promised reward: a family trip to Antarctica. But Bernadette's intensifying allergy to Seattle—and people in general—has made her so agoraphobic that a virtual assistant in India now runs her most basic errands. A trip to the end of the earth is problematic.

To find her mother, Bee compiles email messages, official documents, secret correspondence—creating a compulsively readable and touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter's role in an absurd world.

My Thoughts:

If I were to rate this book, I would give it 3 stars.  You read the whole book as if you were reading someones emails. I got board though most of it. The closer I got to the ending, the better it got. It wasn't the worst book I've ever read, but It wasn't the best either.  It was meh.

Have you read it?

I'd love to hear what you thought!