A review by pantsreadsbooks
Greenwich by Kate Broad

Did not finish book. Stopped at 23%.

Okay, giving up on this one. As someone who lived in Greenwich, CT from 1994-2003, I was excited when I saw this thriller set there in 1999… but not only was it not compelling or thrilling, nothing about it actually read like the town. I couldn’t find out where the author is from, but it isn’t Greenwich. Which is fine if you want to pick a rich, affluent, mostly white area to set your commentary on white privilege, but if you’re going to give the book the title Greenwich, then actually know something about Greenwich. I started highlighting parts with notes like “No one calls it downtown Greenwich, you mean Greenwich Ave.” That aside, as for the plot, things were dragging and by a quarter in, I no longer even cared what the big incident was going to turn out to be. (Small spoilers, but

the nanny and the child are both referred to in the “present” by the narrator, so obviously no one we care about dies.

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Thanks to NetGalley and St Martin’s Press for the ARC to review.