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Our House by Louise Candlish
2.0

It took me a long time to finish this book. Not because I was busy with other things. No, it was because I was bored for 99% of it.
The characters were dull, lacking any real substance or uniqueness. They weren’t likeable so whatever happened to them didn’t make you feel bad.
The idea of the story, slightly great, just wasn’t executed well. Step by step there were things that happened that weren’t surprising or ‘thriller’ worthy.
The format of the book was another one that just didn’t work for me. Split in three, podcast, word document and the present. The podcast read like a normal story, not one where you would think she is talking to anyone really. There are clues at the beginning of each chapter to maybe indicate she’s talking to someone but not in the way you would in real life.
The word document was probably the worst one for me. It didn’t read like a ‘suicide note’ or anything like that. It was just another angle to the same boring story that you just wanted to get through.
It’s going to take a miracle for me to read her next book because this one was a big let down.