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A review by luftschlosseule
The Unfortunates by Sophie McManus
2.0
Trigger warning
terminal illness
hospitalization
mention of rape, attempted rape
drug abuse
mental illness, esp. depression and paranoid shizophrenia
racism and sexism in nice guys
A philantropist heiress enrolls in a med trial as her symptoms worsen every day. She has to move to a hospital, far away, and can only hopes it's for a short time. That her son and his wife will visit her.
There is so much she doesn't know her family's life, but she will learn.
Thanks to the blurp I expected a whodoneit with an old family suddenly realising exactly how many corpses are buried in their basement. The crime they allude to hides itself on page 327, when I already lost hopes for the book but thought I might as well finish reading.
The characters are threedimensional and are mostly despicable in their own way.
If you want to read more than three hundred pages of people ranting and whining, this is the book for you.
I just feel cheated. This is not what I wanted, or was promised.
It was exhausting due to subject matter, because there was nothing that endeared the characters to me. I just wanted to get through as I realised what I am reading. Well, now I am.
hospitalization
mention of rape, attempted rape
drug abuse
mental illness, esp. depression and paranoid shizophrenia
racism and sexism in nice guys
A philantropist heiress enrolls in a med trial as her symptoms worsen every day. She has to move to a hospital, far away, and can only hopes it's for a short time. That her son and his wife will visit her.
There is so much she doesn't know her family's life, but she will learn.
Thanks to the blurp I expected a whodoneit with an old family suddenly realising exactly how many corpses are buried in their basement. The crime they allude to hides itself on page 327, when I already lost hopes for the book but thought I might as well finish reading.
The characters are threedimensional and are mostly despicable in their own way.
If you want to read more than three hundred pages of people ranting and whining, this is the book for you.
I just feel cheated. This is not what I wanted, or was promised.
It was exhausting due to subject matter, because there was nothing that endeared the characters to me. I just wanted to get through as I realised what I am reading. Well, now I am.