A review by lucyyybee
Magpie by Elizabeth Day

dark mysterious tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Loveable characters? No

2.5

This book… Um, don’t know where to start. It was boring, exciting plot twist, back to boring. But within all the boring was also just confusion.
Evil MIL who played small role in book ends up being the biggest issue? Somehow thinking the woman with bipolar / schizophrenia who tried to kill her sons girlfriend was a better fit for her son. Mind you, she’s very stuck up and uppity. So that makes no sense as her son is “perfect” and she would otherwise see Marisa as very flawed.
Also paints mental illness in an odd way. I don’t know. I forced myself through it hoping for a good ending. I was let down. 
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