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A review by jenbsbooks
The Woman Who Ran Away from Everything by Fiona Gibson
2.5
I can't remember how this one popped up on my radar. A Facebook ad? It wasn't at my local library, but was at another, and on Hoopla. I went primarily with the audio, but grabbed the Kindle copy as well. Honestly, if I'd seen the title add-on ... "The Laugh-Out-Loud Funny, Uplifting Kindle Top 5 Read, Perfect for Fans of Sophie Kinsella and Jill Mansell" ... seriously, it's part of the title running across the Kindle copy, and on the Amazon page. I'm fine with a statement like that being part of the blurb, but when it's included as part of the title, it's a total turn-off. It didn't show on GoodReads, or on the library pages, or I seriously would have given it a pass. Trying too hard.
This starts with the annoying "prologue" that actually an "action" scene further along in the story (which isn't really a spoiler, as the cover already gives a glimpse, as does the blurb), and then Chapter One starts "two days earlier" and builds up to the moment we've already read. The prologue scene situation comes in at Chapter Six.
First person/Present tense from Kate's POV for the most part, but there are some "Vince" chapters, which are Third person/Present tense. Labeled as they switch in the text, I wished the POV had also been included in the Table of Contents (if I wanted to look back and go straight to a "Vince" chapter, without having to manually check each chapter to find them). The Vince POV ... it changes things. Just from Kate's POV, the reader would really hate him, but when we get a peek into his head, his thoughts ... some sympathy builds for him, although it doesn't excuse things entirely.
I was a bit conflicted ... SPOILERS ... on the one hand, while Vince and the marriage certainly wasn't perfect, I did still have part of me that wanted them to work it out. Marriage vows, could they be kept? Marriage is so disposable in this day and age. On the other hand ... we're rooting for the new relationship.
Very British (accented in the narration, I adore accents!). Quite a bit of proFanity (x26) and some sexual stuff, more crude than explicit.
This starts with the annoying "prologue" that actually an "action" scene further along in the story (which isn't really a spoiler, as the cover already gives a glimpse, as does the blurb), and then Chapter One starts "two days earlier" and builds up to the moment we've already read. The prologue scene situation comes in at Chapter Six.
First person/Present tense from Kate's POV for the most part, but there are some "Vince" chapters, which are Third person/Present tense. Labeled as they switch in the text, I wished the POV had also been included in the Table of Contents (if I wanted to look back and go straight to a "Vince" chapter, without having to manually check each chapter to find them). The Vince POV ... it changes things. Just from Kate's POV, the reader would really hate him, but when we get a peek into his head, his thoughts ... some sympathy builds for him, although it doesn't excuse things entirely.
I was a bit conflicted ... SPOILERS ...
Very British (accented in the narration, I adore accents!). Quite a bit of proFanity (x26) and some sexual stuff, more crude than explicit.