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A review by monitaroymohan
Ward D by Freida McFadden
2.0
So, a few things go against my enjoyment of this book. First up, I read it immediately after finishing One by One, which had a lot of similar themes, dynamics and even some phrasing. I definitely felt like I had read parts of this book before even though the setting is completely different. The other issue with this book is that it is ludicrously outrageous; there's suspension of disbelief and there's no belief to begin with. This book is the latter.
I just couldn't wrap my head around how many hoops we needed to jump through to make the twists in this book work. The twists in McFadden's other books have been nuts, but she's been clever about them. This one, it's a bridge too far. But weirdly, they also felt predictable? I had that issue with One by One as well, where I was like that's a red herring and I know it. Here too, some of it was predictable, especially the epilogue twist, which so far hasn't let me down. But here, I was like, eh, figured.
Did I enjoy it? Sure. But it has a lot of problems, not least that after a while there's only so much conjecture you can tolerate before wondering how come no one acts with a rational mind in the story. Oh well. I may be running out of steam with this author's bibliography, but who knows. Maybe the next one will reel me back in.
I just couldn't wrap my head around how many hoops we needed to jump through to make the twists in this book work. The twists in McFadden's other books have been nuts, but she's been clever about them. This one, it's a bridge too far. But weirdly, they also felt predictable? I had that issue with One by One as well, where I was like that's a red herring and I know it. Here too, some of it was predictable, especially the epilogue twist, which so far hasn't let me down. But here, I was like, eh, figured.
Did I enjoy it? Sure. But it has a lot of problems, not least that after a while there's only so much conjecture you can tolerate before wondering how come no one acts with a rational mind in the story. Oh well. I may be running out of steam with this author's bibliography, but who knows. Maybe the next one will reel me back in.