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I'm getting really tired of reading crappy books, this is the 4th one I've read in a row that's turned out to be so! I really hope the next one is a winner... now onto the review.
In short, this novel fell flat in most respects. Its merits included decent writing and description but beyond that I can't find much to compliment it.
The story itself was turgid, meandering and quite frankly; boring. You'd think a mash up of prison and the paranormal would be somewhat engaging but it's just not. It's like a really boring episode of Orange is the New Black where we get the backstory of some self-pitying sob-story inmate who can't come to terms with what they did to land them in prison and you just keep waiting for the story to go back to one of the interesting characters except it never does because apparently all the characters are flat and boring stock type characters you'll find in any prison narrative.
I couldn't bring myself to care about any of the characters. Jess was whiney, annoying and self-pitying, I didn't care that she might be innocent because there was virtually nothing interesting about her. I didn't care about Alex either because there were no details about him that made me want to care. When we finally get the big reveal and *spoiler alert* we find out that Alex isn't Alex, I again don't give a crap, it's like the most IDGAF moment. Oooh it's actually psycho Lizzie's girlf... zzzzzz
Some of the characters were just plain weird and unrealistic and felt like they were there just as plot devices- take weirdo self harming stalker lawyer...? Do I even need to to go into that? Just Ugh.
In short, this novel fell flat in most respects. Its merits included decent writing and description but beyond that I can't find much to compliment it.
The story itself was turgid, meandering and quite frankly; boring. You'd think a mash up of prison and the paranormal would be somewhat engaging but it's just not. It's like a really boring episode of Orange is the New Black where we get the backstory of some self-pitying sob-story inmate who can't come to terms with what they did to land them in prison and you just keep waiting for the story to go back to one of the interesting characters except it never does because apparently all the characters are flat and boring stock type characters you'll find in any prison narrative.
I couldn't bring myself to care about any of the characters. Jess was whiney, annoying and self-pitying, I didn't care that she might be innocent because there was virtually nothing interesting about her. I didn't care about Alex either because there were no details about him that made me want to care. When we finally get the big reveal and *spoiler alert* we find out that Alex isn't Alex, I again don't give a crap, it's like the most IDGAF moment. Oooh it's actually psycho Lizzie's girlf... zzzzzz
Some of the characters were just plain weird and unrealistic and felt like they were there just as plot devices- take weirdo self harming stalker lawyer...? Do I even need to to go into that? Just Ugh.