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The Sublet
by Greer Hendricks
<b>Read Completed 4/9/25 |</b> 1.5 stars | Book #50 of 2025
<I>Thank you to the publisher for the audiobook approval via NetGalley. My opinions are in no way influenced by receiving a free copy to read. I also had an ebook copy via Amazon First Reads but chose to listen to the audiobook thanks to my Netgalley approval.</I>
I know it's a serious challenge and takes real talent to write short stories / novellas well and have the reader really care about them... and this just wasn't it. This was a must-read for me because I love Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen books, so with Sarah Pekkanen releasing full-length novels on her own, I was dying to see what this had in store for me with just Greer Hendricks at the helm.
This was just.... not good. In a full-length novel, sure. We would have had time to spend dilly dallying about. In a short story thriller? You HAVE to get to the good parts quickly. It took to long to even get to the sublet. I was beat over the head with "lavender" and this stupid guru woman. There was a wild twist at the end which was stupid because we didn't even have time to get to know what was going on and there wasn't enough time to be interested in the intrigue of it all. Like I said, it takes real skill and is very challenging to make a reader care that much in that amount of time, and I was not into it at all. I hated the characters, didn't feel for them or understand their motives, and just none of it worked for me.
The author wasted a lot of time with dumb filler that could have been better spent in better places. I'm also STILL confused about something...The main character said she had a hard time conceiving and finally she got her twins with IVF. She hadn't had sex with her husband in weeks to a month, and somehow she ends up pregnant at the end. But. How? Was this supposed to be a miraculous conception? Was this from her husband? From the pills? WHY was that even necessary? WHO CARES!! I must have fever-dreamed right over that explanation because I was too busy being disappointed in everything else.
Yes, this was free, but I still invested (a small amount of) time in it. I would have liked to enjoy it at least a little bit.
<I>Thank you to the publisher for the audiobook approval via NetGalley. My opinions are in no way influenced by receiving a free copy to read. I also had an ebook copy via Amazon First Reads but chose to listen to the audiobook thanks to my Netgalley approval.</I>
I know it's a serious challenge and takes real talent to write short stories / novellas well and have the reader really care about them... and this just wasn't it. This was a must-read for me because I love Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen books, so with Sarah Pekkanen releasing full-length novels on her own, I was dying to see what this had in store for me with just Greer Hendricks at the helm.
This was just.... not good. In a full-length novel, sure. We would have had time to spend dilly dallying about. In a short story thriller? You HAVE to get to the good parts quickly. It took to long to even get to the sublet. I was beat over the head with "lavender" and this stupid guru woman. There was a wild twist at the end which was stupid because we didn't even have time to get to know what was going on and there wasn't enough time to be interested in the intrigue of it all. Like I said, it takes real skill and is very challenging to make a reader care that much in that amount of time, and I was not into it at all. I hated the characters, didn't feel for them or understand their motives, and just none of it worked for me.
The author wasted a lot of time with dumb filler that could have been better spent in better places. I'm also STILL confused about something...
Yes, this was free, but I still invested (a small amount of) time in it. I would have liked to enjoy it at least a little bit.