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pigletwashere 's review for:
The Drift
by C.J. Tudor
lighthearted
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I am… conflicted.
Do I love this book solely for the tension and mystery build up, or do I love it because it’s written by a woman? lol, maybe both.
The creepiness and tension throughout the book was so well built up, the different character chapters was so fun to read and see 3 different places where people are being killed in all 3 places. Absolutely fun to read.
The only thing that cringed me out were some characters in each section that were just.. too much. I wished a lot of these mystery who dunnit books just got rid of their overly pretentious characters but it’s just not fun to read. It slightly becomes unbearable when they just won’t cooperate and be decent people in a life or death situation. Maybe like real life but come on it’s just too much in books.
Also, that ending was so obvious. I spotted it around the middle of this book. For one, these three places couldn’t have a killer all at the same time set in the same time and all going towards the same place lol, that was dodgy off the bat. But then a lot of mystery books have a “present” “past” “future” sections so that gave it away.
I’m glad the killer was who they were, definitely didn’t guess it was them until the author actually told us, but knew the timeline had to overlap at some point at weren’t in sync the way we were made to think they were.
Overall, loved this book for the beginning and middle, but definitely not the ending.
Do I love this book solely for the tension and mystery build up, or do I love it because it’s written by a woman? lol, maybe both.
The creepiness and tension throughout the book was so well built up, the different character chapters was so fun to read and see 3 different places where people are being killed in all 3 places. Absolutely fun to read.
The only thing that cringed me out were some characters in each section that were just.. too much. I wished a lot of these mystery who dunnit books just got rid of their overly pretentious characters but it’s just not fun to read. It slightly becomes unbearable when they just won’t cooperate and be decent people in a life or death situation. Maybe like real life but come on it’s just too much in books.
Also, that ending was so obvious. I spotted it around the middle of this book. For one, these three places couldn’t have a killer all at the same time set in the same time and all going towards the same place lol, that was dodgy off the bat. But then a lot of mystery books have a “present” “past” “future” sections so that gave it away.
I’m glad the killer was who they were, definitely didn’t guess it was them until the author actually told us, but knew the timeline had to overlap at some point at weren’t in sync the way we were made to think they were.
Overall, loved this book for the beginning and middle, but definitely not the ending.