A review by beckyyreadss
Anybody Out There? by Marian Keyes

challenging emotional sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I wanted to read this book as I was gifted the second book which is called Rachel’s Holiday and the sixth book which is called Again, Rachel by Michael Joseph Penguin Publishing. So, me being me, had to read the whole series. So, I went and brought this book after reading the first three books in the series. Again, like the last book this could have been cut down by 200 pages. 

This book follows Anna Walsh, the second youngest in the Walsh family. She is officially a wreck. She is physically broken and emotionally shattered. She lies on her parents' sofa in Dublin with only one thing on her mind: getting back to New York. New York means her best friends, The Most Fabulous Job in the World and above all, going back to her husband Aidan. But nothing is simple in Anna’s life. Not only is her return to Manhattan complicated by her physical and emotional scars, but Aidan has simply vanished. Is it time for Anna to move on? Is it even possible for her to move on? A group of misfits, an earth-shattering revelation, two births and one very weird wedding might help Anna find some answers and change her life forever. 

As always with this series, I will start with what I liked during this long ass book. Helen’s emails. That's it. She was the only one that was getting me through this book. She was just checking in on her sister and updating her on her chaotic life. Helen didn’t care about the wedding or know about Anna’s grief journey she was just going through life and hiding in bushes. She is the reason this book is not a 2-star book.  

I really don’t like how big these books are especially because absolutely nothing happens. This one was just Anna’s thoughts and for the first half of the book you think Aidan is a piece of shit that left her after an accident but no he died, and she just blacked it out. Then the second half of the book is her trying to get in touch with him from the other side and then the last 15 chapters is her being pissed that Aidan has an offspring with an ex BEFORE THEY WERE SLEEPING WITH EACH OTHER. But to her it’s the biggest betrayal that has happened to her in the book which sort of rubbed me the wrong way, I know she was hurt because she wanted to have his children but obviously you don’t think you are going to die when you get in a taxi one day. But to hate the child and the ex because they were trying to tell Aidan’s family that there is a piece of him still alive in this child was not normal.  

I really hope that Helen’s story is the end that make this whole series worth it.  
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