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Well, I’m utterly disappointed.
I expected this to be a gripping mystery/thriller, it ended up being a lackluster literary drama instead. The advertised suspense was replaced with a dear diary perspective from an unlikable and pretentious unreliable narrator.
This trope alone is so overly done at this point..
To my dismay, the plot became even more uninteresting by turning into petty rich people drama, leaving me indifferent to their self-indulgent struggles.
Throughout, I was wondering if this would take a Silent Patient turn too, only to discover that this was indeed the "major" twist here as well.
While I appreciate intricate dynamics and relationship drama, the characters here were so unhinged and unrelatable that the only reaction they got out of me were just sighs and eye rolls.
So Alex Michaelides remains a one-hit wonder for me; I’ll proceed with caution before possibly picking up any of his future novels.
PS: pls fire whoever made that fugly cover immediately.
I expected this to be a gripping mystery/thriller, it ended up being a lackluster literary drama instead. The advertised suspense was replaced with a dear diary perspective from an unlikable and pretentious unreliable narrator.
This trope alone is so overly done at this point..
To my dismay, the plot became even more uninteresting by turning into petty rich people drama, leaving me indifferent to their self-indulgent struggles.
Throughout, I was wondering if this would take a Silent Patient turn too, only to discover that this was indeed the "major" twist here as well.
While I appreciate intricate dynamics and relationship drama, the characters here were so unhinged and unrelatable that the only reaction they got out of me were just sighs and eye rolls.
So Alex Michaelides remains a one-hit wonder for me; I’ll proceed with caution before possibly picking up any of his future novels.
PS: pls fire whoever made that fugly cover immediately.