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3.3 AVERAGE
3.3 AVERAGE
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
fast-paced
challenging
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
No
mysterious
medium-paced
A great beach read. The combination of setting and characters layers drama to a crescendo of wild proportions.
Eh,,,,,,, 2.5 stars probably.
When I picked this up at the library, I was looking for a no-brainer, fun, easily readable story about unlikable WASPs. Sometimes you just need a story about shallow rich people over the summer where the conclusion is that shallow rich people are terrible.
For those reasons I enjoyed this book for about 2/3 of it. None of the characters were super fleshed out but I honestly didn't care because I didn't need to feel super connected to them. I was just entertained by their cheating gossiping hateful antics.
The last 3rd kind of ruined it for me. We know in the first chapter there's a death, but as the book went on I'd honestly mostly forgotten about it and was okay with it. I felt like the author was trying to up the stakes with the death plot, but weirdly enough I felt LESS stakes with the dead body. The cheating I somewhat cared about. The did a rich person murder another rich person storyline I did not. I wasn't connected enough to any of the characters to mourn their passing or worry about whether they'd be connected to the death.
I also felt there were too many perspectives, to the point where it felt like the author ran out of content and started writing random POVs to bring the story to a respectable novel length. This probably contributed to the issue where I didn't feel super connected to any character.
When I picked this up at the library, I was looking for a no-brainer, fun, easily readable story about unlikable WASPs. Sometimes you just need a story about shallow rich people over the summer where the conclusion is that shallow rich people are terrible.
For those reasons I enjoyed this book for about 2/3 of it. None of the characters were super fleshed out but I honestly didn't care because I didn't need to feel super connected to them. I was just entertained by their cheating gossiping hateful antics.
The last 3rd kind of ruined it for me. We know in the first chapter there's a death, but as the book went on I'd honestly mostly forgotten about it and was okay with it. I felt like the author was trying to up the stakes with the death plot, but weirdly enough I felt LESS stakes with the dead body. The cheating I somewhat cared about. The did a rich person murder another rich person storyline I did not. I wasn't connected enough to any of the characters to mourn their passing or worry about whether they'd be connected to the death.
I also felt there were too many perspectives, to the point where it felt like the author ran out of content and started writing random POVs to bring the story to a respectable novel length. This probably contributed to the issue where I didn't feel super connected to any character.
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Good enough to keep me listening. The characters were shallow, but that's the point. Nobody in this story was likeable.
dark
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The plot moved slowly, the characters are not compelling, and the end just kind of fizzled.