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A review by itputsthebookupontheshelf
The Guilt Trip by Sandie Jones
3.0
Ok, first let me start by saying went into the review section of Goodreads before writing this review. I just want to be transparent. I wanted to see what others were saying in comparison to how I was feeling. I still feel very much the same as before I had read them.
As one reviewer described, this book is very much like a soap opera/telenovella. No joke! It was all so dramatic and some of the characters so were over the top. It was entertaining for a bit, then started to get tiring. With everything going on and all the different characters, it was kind of all a jumble at times and hard to keep track of who was doing or saying what.
All of a sudden out of nowhere comes this big scene, nope, didn’t see it coming. Nor did I think it was necessarily the best way to start bringing that story together and to it’s conclusion. There’s all this madness and devastation going on, which I guess was the “big bang” of the story, but just seemed to add more confusion as to what was actually going on. I would have liked to see more twists earlier in the story and throughout instead of what we got in this “shocking” event.
I honestly don’t remember much about the surroundings and scenery that would have made us feel like we were at a destination wedding. There was much lacking there to pull you into the scenes. Honestly, it was mostly commentary and inner dialog which was not enough to make me enjoy any of the characters. Sigh.
I know this all sounds bad, I didn’t hate it… It had potential, it just didn’t quite hit the way it all could have. It was my first introduction to this author, but I’d still like to check out other works by Jones.
Thank you to Macmillan Audio and Netgalley for a copy of this title in exchange for an honest review.
As one reviewer described, this book is very much like a soap opera/telenovella. No joke! It was all so dramatic and some of the characters so were over the top. It was entertaining for a bit, then started to get tiring. With everything going on and all the different characters, it was kind of all a jumble at times and hard to keep track of who was doing or saying what.
All of a sudden out of nowhere comes this big scene, nope, didn’t see it coming. Nor did I think it was necessarily the best way to start bringing that story together and to it’s conclusion. There’s all this madness and devastation going on, which I guess was the “big bang” of the story, but just seemed to add more confusion as to what was actually going on. I would have liked to see more twists earlier in the story and throughout instead of what we got in this “shocking” event.
I honestly don’t remember much about the surroundings and scenery that would have made us feel like we were at a destination wedding. There was much lacking there to pull you into the scenes. Honestly, it was mostly commentary and inner dialog which was not enough to make me enjoy any of the characters. Sigh.
I know this all sounds bad, I didn’t hate it… It had potential, it just didn’t quite hit the way it all could have. It was my first introduction to this author, but I’d still like to check out other works by Jones.
Thank you to Macmillan Audio and Netgalley for a copy of this title in exchange for an honest review.