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A review by triciafee
The Sudden Departure of the Frasers by Louise Candlish
3.0
I feel like I should give this four or five stars considering I raced through it in a couple of days. It's definitely a gripping read and keeps you interested. It just seems there was no great payoff in the end.
For instance, I would have liked to see the Davenport's marriage explored further since there were (I thought) real issues raised throughout the book that were never mentioned again. Also, the big "mystery" that kept me reading until well into the night turned out to be (spoiler alert?) exactly what I would have thought everyone expected all along.
I probably shouldn't complain about the ending since the journey there was an enjoyable read, and it's certainly a bigger achievement for the writer to have you really gripped throughout and a little bit let down at the end than bored throughout most of the book and finally rewarded with a satisfying twist in the last pages.
So, I would definitely recommend this as summer reading but I only give 4 or 5 stars to books that stay with me in some way, and I don't think this one will.
For instance, I would have liked to see the Davenport's marriage explored further since there were (I thought) real issues raised throughout the book that were never mentioned again. Also, the big "mystery" that kept me reading until well into the night turned out to be (spoiler alert?) exactly what I would have thought everyone expected all along.
I probably shouldn't complain about the ending since the journey there was an enjoyable read, and it's certainly a bigger achievement for the writer to have you really gripped throughout and a little bit let down at the end than bored throughout most of the book and finally rewarded with a satisfying twist in the last pages.
So, I would definitely recommend this as summer reading but I only give 4 or 5 stars to books that stay with me in some way, and I don't think this one will.