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A review by bhnmt61
Who is Maud Dixon?: A Novel by Alexandra Andrews
Florence Darrow is determined to have the recognition she feels she deserves and she is willing to play a little fast and loose to get what she wants. But her small steps into the gray areas soon turn into huge leaps when she gets tangled up with someone with no morals at all.
I enjoyed the first 75 pages or so—Florence is so cheerfully amoral in the early stages of her collapse that you can’t help but be amused. But once I saw where it was going, I lost interest. I skipped over and read the last 75 pages and that was plenty for me to know this book is not for me. I get that part of the fascination of reading a book like this is seeing how they get away with it, and it can be like working a puzzle to see how all the different layers of deception fit together. But that doesn't mean I have to like it.
I'm tempted to make some kind of sweeping social commentary about the moral state of our nation given the current popularity of books and movies about criminals successfully pulling off elaborate plots (from Gone Girl to the Ocean heist movies). But I know a whole bunch of normal, law-abiding citizens who love that stuff, so I'll just stick with saying I do not understand the appeal. I will cheerfully accept the label of boring stick-in-the-mud.
I enjoyed the first 75 pages or so—Florence is so cheerfully amoral in the early stages of her collapse that you can’t help but be amused. But once I saw where it was going, I lost interest. I skipped over and read the last 75 pages and that was plenty for me to know this book is not for me. I get that part of the fascination of reading a book like this is seeing how they get away with it, and it can be like working a puzzle to see how all the different layers of deception fit together. But that doesn't mean I have to like it.
I'm tempted to make some kind of sweeping social commentary about the moral state of our nation given the current popularity of books and movies about criminals successfully pulling off elaborate plots (from Gone Girl to the Ocean heist movies). But I know a whole bunch of normal, law-abiding citizens who love that stuff, so I'll just stick with saying I do not understand the appeal. I will cheerfully accept the label of boring stick-in-the-mud.