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A review by kimmiereadsalot
In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead
1.75
1.75 stars
As another reviewer so eloquently put (and I paraphrase here): spoiler alert, there is no knife.
There’s also a noticeable lack of suspense or thrills. The synopsis is a flat out fabrication of the intensity of this book. Why? Because. Nothing happens!
Seriously. Nothing happens. So many of the flashback events are pointless. Way too much of the book is spent on Jessica’s woah-is-me-pitty-party attitude.
According to the synopsis, SOMEONE IS SUPPOSED TO BE MESSING WITH THEM. Maybe it’s my fault that my expectations were a little more “and then there were none” inspired, but come on! SPOILER ALERT….
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There is only the one, I repeat ONE murder in the entire book. No one is messing with anyone! And it was so boring. Have I mentioned this?
It felt way too soap opery with an obvious “twist” ending and a really flat second “twist”.
This author might have potential if she finds the courage to right a truly thrilling story with actual twists and turns and MURDER. I think her concentration was too much on trying to develop the characters which just didn’t work. There were too many to do it well and the ones she did concentrate on weren’t exciting or likable.
I get wanting to build characters, but genre fiction has certain requirements. Calling a book with one murder in the past that mostly concentrates on characters is not a genre thriller in my layperson perspective.
I could go on. I just really didn’t like it. Did finish very fast. In the early hours of the morning when unable to sleep. But some books you read so fast because there just that good. Other because you just want to be done. Unfortunately, this one was the latter for me.
As another reviewer so eloquently put (and I paraphrase here): spoiler alert, there is no knife.
There’s also a noticeable lack of suspense or thrills. The synopsis is a flat out fabrication of the intensity of this book. Why? Because. Nothing happens!
Seriously. Nothing happens. So many of the flashback events are pointless. Way too much of the book is spent on Jessica’s woah-is-me-pitty-party attitude.
According to the synopsis, SOMEONE IS SUPPOSED TO BE MESSING WITH THEM. Maybe it’s my fault that my expectations were a little more “and then there were none” inspired, but come on! SPOILER ALERT….
S
P
O
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L
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R
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L
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R
T
There is only the one, I repeat ONE murder in the entire book. No one is messing with anyone! And it was so boring. Have I mentioned this?
It felt way too soap opery with an obvious “twist” ending and a really flat second “twist”.
This author might have potential if she finds the courage to right a truly thrilling story with actual twists and turns and MURDER. I think her concentration was too much on trying to develop the characters which just didn’t work. There were too many to do it well and the ones she did concentrate on weren’t exciting or likable.
I get wanting to build characters, but genre fiction has certain requirements. Calling a book with one murder in the past that mostly concentrates on characters is not a genre thriller in my layperson perspective.
I could go on. I just really didn’t like it. Did finish very fast. In the early hours of the morning when unable to sleep. But some books you read so fast because there just that good. Other because you just want to be done. Unfortunately, this one was the latter for me.