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The Couple Next Door

Shari Lapena

3.55 AVERAGE

dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Okay...just a heads up, this review might come across as a bit over dramatic and exaggerated....much like the book itself 😂⁣
You guys know I love changing up my genres now and then. I LIVE for romances but I also love a good thriller. ⁣

This...this just wasn’t...⁣

It’s really REALLY hard to describe the problems in this book without posting spoilers but let me just start by saying that the whole thing read like a giant spoiler. There really wasn’t any mystery because the narrator gets into every character’s head 🤦🏻‍♀️⁣

You pretty much figure everything out before the halfway point and when another situation comes up that I guess was supposed to be this big revelation...well it’s irrelevant to us as a reader because we already told what was going on in the scene prior. Seriously, no suspense. ⁣

I feel this book could have had potential but it smells like the author had no idea what they wanted it too be...a drama? thriller? Wait...HORROR??? SO CONFUSED!!!! 😫⁣

In the end I found pretty much all the characters unlikable to some degree and felt like there was more “thrills” in a lifetime original movie 😑 ⁣

Don’t even get me started on the ending...⁣

⭐️⭐️💫 ...I just realized this was my lowest rating to date! 😬⁣

If you happen to be a big fan...please...PUT DOWN THAT KNIFE!!! *runs and hides* ⁣

🖤Katie ⁣

La verdad que por el final me falta algo, no se como explicarlo, pero como que lo veo incompleto, aun así me entretuvo, y super fácil de leer.
dark tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Okay this one was twisty but I enjoyed it. This domestic thriller kept me guessing the whole time.

Pages and pages could have been edited out. The main problem of this book is repetition and staying too long on a point already established. The twists are excellent; one also finds it easy to get invested in the story right from the start. What's difficult is not to shout with frustration, “Enough already, I got it. Move on!" One more thing that got under my skin was that Marco's supposedly expanded company looked like to be a one-man business firm. A software developing company and no team around? No pals at work? The author has clearly never written a line of code or stepped among developers. Other than these, I liked everything else.
mysterious slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Loveable characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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challenging emotional mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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I really enjoyed the beginning of this book....mainly because I didn't read the description before I picked it up. I enjoyed everything up until the part where the character is let in on what really happened in the middle of the book. I wish the author had left it how it was....let me keep guessing.

Took me less than a week! I couldn't figure it out