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3.03 AVERAGE
3.03 AVERAGE
dark
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Not at all Gone Girl - i hate that everything keeps being compared to Gone Girl!
The characters in this were not at all likable, but the story kept me interested right till the end.
The characters in this were not at all likable, but the story kept me interested right till the end.
Nothing like "Gone Girl", except that they are both stories about a marriage in trouble. Its still a decent read. I think the comparisons to Gillian Flynn's book do this novel a huge disservice.
Not particularly thrilling but I liked talking about it with my book club.
I liked this book more than I was expecting. I feel like it's false advertising comparing this to Gone Girl. It didn't have the feel of a thriller to me. It felt more simply like a look into the life of a deluded, wealthy American couple. A selfish, sex addict of a man who likes to live on the edge professionally, cheats on his wife constantly and is afraid of becoming his alcoholic, abusive father, though he just became a different version of that man. And the wife who is equally selfish but in the sense that she will do and accept just about anything to keep the man that she loves and the lifestyle to which she has become accustomed. As long as he doesn't rub it in her face, she just pretends that he's no screwing everyone in sight and it's business as usual.
I thought I would hate Jodi more as I was reading this story, knowing what she would do. But weirdly, I didn't hate her. I felt sorry for her for a bit, but then I didn't as she made a giant leap from jilted ex-partner to murderer. I felt somewhat disconnected from her and her overly ordered life, but I also understood where she came from considering her past, her profession and her overwhelming need for order in her existence.
Todd was just a straight up selfish prick who had convinced himself that as long as he said he was sorry for something, it was okay to do. He wanted the best of all worlds and was unabashed in his pursuit of it. You get the sense that if his barely out of her teens mistress hadn't gotten pregnant and pushed him to get married, he would have happily continued on with his duplicity forever. Coming home every night to his touchstone, Jodi, who kept his life just as he liked it while spending his spare time screwing any woman who was willing and able and openly lusting after the rest of womankind.
Some of it felt a bit too convenient at the end. How easy it was for her to put her plot into motion, but in a way, I liked it because it kept the story moving and it ended when it needed to end and didn't drag itself out unnecessarily. I'm sorry to see that the author has passed away. She was only getting started as a fiction writer and she was clearly very talented.
I thought I would hate Jodi more as I was reading this story, knowing what she would do. But weirdly, I didn't hate her. I felt sorry for her for a bit, but then I didn't as she made a giant leap from jilted ex-partner to murderer. I felt somewhat disconnected from her and her overly ordered life, but I also understood where she came from considering her past, her profession and her overwhelming need for order in her existence.
Todd was just a straight up selfish prick who had convinced himself that as long as he said he was sorry for something, it was okay to do. He wanted the best of all worlds and was unabashed in his pursuit of it. You get the sense that if his barely out of her teens mistress hadn't gotten pregnant and pushed him to get married, he would have happily continued on with his duplicity forever. Coming home every night to his touchstone, Jodi, who kept his life just as he liked it while spending his spare time screwing any woman who was willing and able and openly lusting after the rest of womankind.
Some of it felt a bit too convenient at the end. How easy it was for her to put her plot into motion, but in a way, I liked it because it kept the story moving and it ended when it needed to end and didn't drag itself out unnecessarily. I'm sorry to see that the author has passed away. She was only getting started as a fiction writer and she was clearly very talented.
I wasn't a huge fan of the writing style, but I could see how some would like the introspectiveness of it. Great story though, so I still ended up enjoying it!
This was not much of a psychological thriller to me and did not really have any twists. Pretty slow plot but it was short so tolerable.
It was a good and easy read except for when it got REALLY bogged down in psychology and therapy.
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
Disappointing and forgettable. I read this a couple of months before this review and I have absolutely no recollection of the story line. It was either so bad that I had to purge my memory of it or that trite that it blends in with every other gone girl wannabe. I'm willing to bet the latter.