Scan barcode
A review by bethreadsandnaps
The Wrong Mother by Sophie Hannah
3.0
I listened to the audiobook version, and I'd recommend that others NOT do this. The narrator has a British accent (the occasional word was pronounced far differently or slang I didn't know) and sometimes talks too fast. It takes a while to get into and there are a lot of characters (I got confused with the various police/detectives particularly) and switching viewpoints. Even if you try to listen to this in bigger chunks, it was difficult to listen on and off because I was a bit disoriented when I started back up again. Whose perspective was it? How does this character relate to everyone else?
The "will they, won't they?" story between Charlie and Simon was very much a C plot and seemed to screw up the pacing of the whodunit.
It was an interesting psychological thriller that I found unique, especially how some of the characters portrayed motherhood. The story was a bit convoluted, as a woman who had an affair with a man a year ago finds out that his wife and daughter have been murdered. But, get this, the man with the murdered family is now a different man. Interesting book to listen to, and it probably would have been almost as convoluted if I had read it instead, based on scanning the reviews of people who read it.
The "will they, won't they?" story between Charlie and Simon was very much a C plot and seemed to screw up the pacing of the whodunit.
It was an interesting psychological thriller that I found unique, especially how some of the characters portrayed motherhood. The story was a bit convoluted, as a woman who had an affair with a man a year ago finds out that his wife and daughter have been murdered. But, get this, the man with the murdered family is now a different man. Interesting book to listen to, and it probably would have been almost as convoluted if I had read it instead, based on scanning the reviews of people who read it.