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What You Did

Claire McGowan

3.48 AVERAGE

molly1719's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

cbaggallay95's review against another edition

4.0

Gripping Read

A book that books you instantly and one that you can't put down. I really enjoyed, although the twist wasn't that much of a surprise! But very worth the read.

maybe_the_best's review against another edition

3.0

Enjoyable holiday read. I read this on my kindle on a train in Italy and it helped soak up the time.

kjebbett's review against another edition

1.0

slow-paced

tracey25's review against another edition

2.0

Took me a while to get into the book at first. It was okay.

ciara_g's review against another edition

3.0

What You Did follows a group of college friends who reunite after twenty years and I’m going to start off by saying, psychological thriller, she is not. I think I might have enjoyed this story a whole lot more if the main narrator, Ali, wasn’t a total twat. Everything she did, said and thought from her past to her present was infuriating and to avoid ranting too much, I won’t even go into the fact that it is her literal profession to support rape survivors.

As well as that, the multiple narrators, timeline-jumping and vague storyline made this feel like a bit of a slog. I didn’t predict the plot twist but personally, it didn’t have much of an impact as we had very little context to the why [oh, and Ali’s a fucking idiot].