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Providence
by Caroline Kepnes
Providence. I finished the book about 12 hours ago and I still don’t know what to say. I guess I’ll start by saying it wasn’t for me. I love sci-fi, fantasy, thrillers, mystery’s. I generally don’t dwell on the “hows, why’s” of the genres. I accept it as part of the world the author creates but in Providence I can’t get past “wtf” what happened? How did it happen? What did Blair do? And those questions that never get answered really frustrated me. So much so that I wasn’t excited during more than half the story.
If I went into it knowing the story was about a love triangle with otherworldly circumstances maybe it would have been different but I didn’t. I went in thinking I was going to discover what happened to Jon. And I can’t get past not knowing.
All that said, I liked Chloe and Carrig for who they were. None of the characters were perfect. They make human mistakes, human decisions and I loved that. I think Jon had some interesting aspects but my annoyance with not understanding what happened and him not knowing made it hard for me to like him. I wanted to but it never happened.
Then there’s Eggs. Where hell did he come from? He just shows up 6 years later and it took me forever to figure out he wasn’t an old character with a new nickname, he was new. And he was terrible. I found myself skipping most of his chapters because I didn’t care about his story. The way he treated his family, his life, his job, I didn’t care. SO that probably didn’t help my opinion much.
I wouldn’t categorize the book as a thriller at all. There was nothing thrilling about it. Mystery fits and sci-fi fits but for me it just didn’t do it for me. ALL that said, I will still read Caroline Kepnes because I enjoy her writing and mind, this one just didn’t work for me and that’s okay.
Thank you to Random House Publishing and Net Galley for providing me with a copy of this book for my honest review.
If I went into it knowing the story was about a love triangle with otherworldly circumstances maybe it would have been different but I didn’t. I went in thinking I was going to discover what happened to Jon. And I can’t get past not knowing.
All that said, I liked Chloe and Carrig for who they were. None of the characters were perfect. They make human mistakes, human decisions and I loved that. I think Jon had some interesting aspects but my annoyance with not understanding what happened and him not knowing made it hard for me to like him. I wanted to but it never happened.
Then there’s Eggs. Where hell did he come from? He just shows up 6 years later and it took me forever to figure out he wasn’t an old character with a new nickname, he was new. And he was terrible. I found myself skipping most of his chapters because I didn’t care about his story. The way he treated his family, his life, his job, I didn’t care. SO that probably didn’t help my opinion much.
I wouldn’t categorize the book as a thriller at all. There was nothing thrilling about it. Mystery fits and sci-fi fits but for me it just didn’t do it for me. ALL that said, I will still read Caroline Kepnes because I enjoy her writing and mind, this one just didn’t work for me and that’s okay.
Thank you to Random House Publishing and Net Galley for providing me with a copy of this book for my honest review.