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A review by nclcaitlin
Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent
3.0
Reclusive Sally Diamond is thrust into the media spotlight when she tries to incinerate her dead father, causing widespread outrage.
Now she's the center of attention from curious reporters and investigating police detectives. Also, playing into the thriller aspect, disturbing information from her past that she can’t remember but is being brought to the light.
I don’t know if I would call this a straight thriller. It takes a while to get to the ‘thriller’ aspect and even then it doesn’t feel like it takes centre stage.
This is a really hard book to describe without spoiling anything!
There are two narrators.
Sally is so fun - odd, socially awkward, funny. The other narrator takes us on a totally different journey with a totally dark story and I cannot say anything more without giving things away!
“Every decade or so, we come up with new labels to categorize people. You could have been diagnosed with anxiety disorder or PTSD. Some might even have said you have autistic spectrum disorder or that you have an attachment disorder. The fact is that you are a bit odd, that’s all. You are you. As unique and different as every other person on the planet. Your oddities are not disabilities (although we call them disabilities to get your welfare allowance), they are mere quirks of your personality.”
I would recommend Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine (character-wise) and The Reappearance of Rachel Price (plot-wise) if you enjoyed this!
Minor spoilers:
The ending kind of sucked.
If you want a healing book, a closed ending, a happy ever after, this book will not deliver.
The ending made it feel like a lot of the book was pointless.
And yes, I did have to google ‘ending explained’ because it felt like the book ended extremely prematurely.
Now she's the center of attention from curious reporters and investigating police detectives. Also, playing into the thriller aspect, disturbing information from her past that she can’t remember but is being brought to the light.
I don’t know if I would call this a straight thriller. It takes a while to get to the ‘thriller’ aspect and even then it doesn’t feel like it takes centre stage.
This is a really hard book to describe without spoiling anything!
There are two narrators.
Sally is so fun - odd, socially awkward, funny. The other narrator takes us on a totally different journey with a totally dark story and I cannot say anything more without giving things away!
“Every decade or so, we come up with new labels to categorize people. You could have been diagnosed with anxiety disorder or PTSD. Some might even have said you have autistic spectrum disorder or that you have an attachment disorder. The fact is that you are a bit odd, that’s all. You are you. As unique and different as every other person on the planet. Your oddities are not disabilities (although we call them disabilities to get your welfare allowance), they are mere quirks of your personality.”
I would recommend Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine (character-wise) and The Reappearance of Rachel Price (plot-wise) if you enjoyed this!
Minor spoilers:
The ending kind of sucked.
If you want a healing book, a closed ending, a happy ever after, this book will not deliver.
The ending made it feel like a lot of the book was pointless.
And yes, I did have to google ‘ending explained’ because it felt like the book ended extremely prematurely.