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A review by avig
The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
3.0
This book has one of the most polarizing audience responses I have seen from a fictional thriller. Some people love it and obviously it was nominated for the goodreads choice awards but some of the more proficient readers definitely observe the shortcomings in storytelling.
The story starts off great and definitely gets you hooked. The relationship between the protagonist and her step daughter develops over the course of the novel and is a really nice touch to aid the character development. What I didn’t like though was that the second half of the novel is extremely predictable and the last few chapters seem rushed taking away the charisma of the thriller. The ending was spurted out so quickly that you are left wondering “Oh! That’s it? Just like that?”
In conclusion, this is definitely a “good-read”(pun intended) for a general audience but could have been way better if there was some time spent on NOT oversimplifying the complex characters and plots that Laura Dave shows us in the first half. For the connoisseurs of thrillers though, you can pass on this one.
The story starts off great and definitely gets you hooked. The relationship between the protagonist and her step daughter develops over the course of the novel and is a really nice touch to aid the character development. What I didn’t like though was that the second half of the novel is extremely predictable and the last few chapters seem rushed taking away the charisma of the thriller. The ending was spurted out so quickly that you are left wondering “Oh! That’s it? Just like that?”
In conclusion, this is definitely a “good-read”(pun intended) for a general audience but could have been way better if there was some time spent on NOT oversimplifying the complex characters and plots that Laura Dave shows us in the first half. For the connoisseurs of thrillers though, you can pass on this one.