What do readers think of Hieroglyphics by Jill McCorkle? Write your own review.

I wanted to like this book. The fact that it's told in different voices is one of my favorite structures and I've read other McCorkle books and enjoyed them. But, this book was airless and claustrophobic. Filled with the unimportant minutiae of details and dull musings, it's heavy and overloaded. You have to sift through all the extra sand to find the few nuggets of gold and it's way too hard a job.

I did not like this book. The story is told by four different characters. I found it hard to follow and the characters of Shelley and Harvey were not interesting to me. The character Lil was the most interesting and I might have enjoyed the story if it had been told only from her perspective.

I stuck with it hoping it would get better or make some sense in the end but it didn't.

I really wanted to like this book. The description sounded like the type of book I usually like but this one just didn't come together for me. It does contain reflections on Lil's and Frank's lives but they were too disjointed and random. I couldn't find cohesiveness in the story. This may be how we think when we are reflecting but I struggled reading this one.