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3.03 AVERAGE
3.03 AVERAGE
I really didn't like this book. I found that I was totally bored through most of it, for being marketed as a thriller, I wasn't thrilled at all! I hated all of the characters, and there weren't any twist or turns that took me by surprise. I also didn't like the writing. There was so much explanation of everything the characters were doing, but they characters never said very much. It was monotonous and unnecessary. It partly explains why I was so bored throughout the book. I also hated the ending. I felt like it was there to make sense of why the characters acted the way they did, but it didn't. At least not for me. I still hated them all.
I think the comparison to "Gone Girl" isn't really fair to that book! This is in NO way a comparison to that great book! I found this book a little odd...throwing in odd rid bits and not really completing the story. I was disappointed to say the least....
Alternate title: The Dirtbag and The Doormat
Decent plot, and it moves quickly, but the characters are just bad. Not bad in an interesting, love to hate kind of way, just basically a couple of losers. The husband is an adulterous jerk; it's really hard to get why he has his pick of women half his age since he's utterly charmless. The wife is just a total doormat who knowingly puts herself in a position where she's completely dependent on someone who she knows from day one is unreliable. It feels like at the end there's a tacked on subplot meant to explain that she's damaged, but she's still an inexcusably awful person in the end.
Decent plot, and it moves quickly, but the characters are just bad. Not bad in an interesting, love to hate kind of way, just basically a couple of losers. The husband is an adulterous jerk; it's really hard to get why he has his pick of women half his age since he's utterly charmless. The wife is just a total doormat who knowingly puts herself in a position where she's completely dependent on someone who she knows from day one is unreliable. It feels like at the end there's a tacked on subplot meant to explain that she's damaged, but she's still an inexcusably awful person in the end.
powerful and thought-provoking, especially for the therapists out there
So. Many. Words.
This book could have been half the length and still have been a compelling story.
This book could have been half the length and still have been a compelling story.
This was not psychological, this was not a thriller. This was just a story that really didn't seem to go anywhere and I don't understand the point of it.
Once again, I've read an entire book without realizing I read it before.