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3.44 AVERAGE
3.44 AVERAGE
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Felt unfinished, as other reviewers have said. Pretty unbelievable as well. Figured out a few of the twists pretty early on. Didn’t totally understand the drive for everything happening in the story.
fast-paced
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I found the story interesting however each chapter starts with a different characters point of view. It tends to get a little confusing and I found myself going back to the beginning of the chapter to remember whose point of view I was reading. For the number of pages in this book, I felt it should've been a quick read but I didn't find myself getting antsy to continue reading like I do with so many other books. Maybe if there wasn't so much redirection on whose turn it was, the story would've had more flow for me. It was a good story just hard for me as a speed reader to figure out which set of eyes I was looking through at the moment. And some chapters start with the same person's point of view as the last chapter or two which made it even more frustrating.
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
tense
fast-paced
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
challenging
dark
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This book was equal parts dark and creepy but in a "I can't stop reading kind of way".
In this novel we follow our FMC, Dinah and her husband, Joe - she's a police detective in the LA County area, he's a psychiatric doctor of some kind of speciality.
For me as soon as we jump in, I was a little confused at first. There's a lot of names thrown out and it took just a little bit to get my footing, as to who was who and how things linked together. Once I got it though things really did start to race off.
The story had me hooked right away and I was flipping through the pages like a mad person, I had my theories because obviously some of the characters were super shady. I mean Dinah didn't even try to be good at her job. It was so obvious that she was involved so while I was correct in some things, I did still get some twisty surprises.
I listened to the audio book which was brilliant because there were unreliable narrators at every turn. Unlikable characters galore, this definitely had a feeling where you did not like any character but it was meant to feel like that.
Honestly though, I'm just a little conflicted with how I feel about this one, because it went a little like this :
While reading the story I was hooked and couldn't wait to find out what happened even though things seemed a little wild, the codependent relationship between the two main characters was just a little bit annoying to me. I guess it was meant to portray how they were each crazy in their own way and the crazy worked with each other but it was just weird. The storyline with Jessica and how it devolved the entire relationship between the two main characters was also a bit meh because you would have thought he would be all over this and delving into her mental state at that time of loosing her child and all that.
There was a stage where I was left with more questions than answers, and I wanted more background on how Joe and Dinah got together, and how they actually came to have this understanding in their marriage. Like did he use therapy to convince her to do things or was she always open to it and they just found it in each other. I also want to know what happened to her former partner, Oley, and what was happening with Freddie Hodgkins involvement in the case. This character was introduced and made into such a big fuss and then just dissappeared which was very disappointing.
Overall this book was highly addictive and I did plow through it in a day. This is definitely great if you feel like reading a madly unhinged storyline.
In this novel we follow our FMC, Dinah and her husband, Joe - she's a police detective in the LA County area, he's a psychiatric doctor of some kind of speciality.
For me as soon as we jump in, I was a little confused at first. There's a lot of names thrown out and it took just a little bit to get my footing, as to who was who and how things linked together. Once I got it though things really did start to race off.
The story had me hooked right away and I was flipping through the pages like a mad person, I had my theories because obviously some of the characters were super shady. I mean Dinah didn't even try to be good at her job. It was so obvious that she was involved so while I was correct in some things, I did still get some twisty surprises.
I listened to the audio book which was brilliant because there were unreliable narrators at every turn. Unlikable characters galore, this definitely had a feeling where you did not like any character but it was meant to feel like that.
Honestly though, I'm just a little conflicted with how I feel about this one, because it went a little like this :
While reading the story I was hooked and couldn't wait to find out what happened even though things seemed a little wild, the codependent relationship between the two main characters was just a little bit annoying to me. I guess it was meant to portray how they were each crazy in their own way and the crazy worked with each other but it was just weird. The storyline with Jessica and how it devolved the entire relationship between the two main characters was also a bit meh because you would have thought he would be all over this and delving into her mental state at that time of loosing her child and all that.
There was a stage where I was left with more questions than answers, and I wanted more background on how Joe and Dinah got together, and how they actually came to have this understanding in their marriage. Like did he use therapy to convince her to do things or was she always open to it and they just found it in each other. I also want to know what happened to her former partner, Oley, and what was happening with Freddie Hodgkins involvement in the case. This character was introduced and made into such a big fuss and then just dissappeared which was very disappointing.
Overall this book was highly addictive and I did plow through it in a day. This is definitely great if you feel like reading a madly unhinged storyline.