A review by kyliecardell
The Engagement by Chloe Hooper

I just didn't really get into this book, and I couldn't be convinced by its premise. There was a real potential for it to be a quite creepy and gothic story, but it doesn't deliver. The characters are (surprisingly, given the unusual context of their relationship) boring and unengaging. We never really learn enough about either of the central protagonists (or maybe we learn too much?) to feel interested in their self-interested self-delusions and the central plot twist is just not convincing. I really thoroughly enjoyed Hooper's nonfiction book The Tall Man and this is my first foray into her fiction. I hear Child's Book of True Crime is very good. I don't know that I'll be rushing off to find out.