Take a photo of a barcode or cover
catsreadgooder 's review for:
Our House
by Louise Candlish
The premise was interesting – Fiona comes home to find strangers are moving into her house and her ex-husband, who she shares the house with, has disappeared. We then get the back story of Fiona and her ex-husband, from buying the house, to the end of their relationship, and the events leading up to her finding strangers moving into her beloved house.
I was really intrigued by how this story was told – Fiona told her story through a podcast transcript and her ex-husband in a Word document, interspersed by what was happening in real time. I did think the first quarter started a little choppy with the format but then hit its stride. I enjoyed hearing both points of view to get an idea of what really happened but how both perceived it.
There was an interesting story here but the book was longer than it needed to be. The middle of the book dragged on too long and was marred by repetition, annoying antagonists, and bad decisions by the main characters. The end of the book picked back up and was pretty decent though.
I was really intrigued by how this story was told – Fiona told her story through a podcast transcript and her ex-husband in a Word document, interspersed by what was happening in real time. I did think the first quarter started a little choppy with the format but then hit its stride. I enjoyed hearing both points of view to get an idea of what really happened but how both perceived it.
There was an interesting story here but the book was longer than it needed to be. The middle of the book dragged on too long and was marred by repetition, annoying antagonists, and bad decisions by the main characters. The end of the book picked back up and was pretty decent though.