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by Renée Knight
The hype surrounding this book's release has been insane, and the subsequent rave reviews seem to be everywhere, which makes me wonder - am I the only person in the world who was totally underwhelmed by this book? There have been lots of comparisons made to Gone Girl (and equally lots of people claiming that it's nothing like Gone Girl). I fall firmly into the former camp - this book IS like Gone Girl in the sense that I had absolutely no interest or sympathy for the characters whatsoever.
I've left it a few days between finishing the book and writing the review just in case my views change, but nope, after closing the book it left my mind totally, which personally I don't feel is the sign of a great story.
The premise is excellent - who could fail to be intrigued by the idea of opening a book and the story being all about you? However, the premise was let down by a keep-you-in-the-dark plot and a series of shallow, weak and generally unlikeable characters. Ok, I admit, I don't like 'keep-you-in-the-dark' plots because I am generally rubbish at guessing what's going on. I'm the sort of person who needs movie plots explaining to me *as I'm watching them*. So this meant that I spent about half the book wondering what the hell was going on. This wasn't helped by the fact that the writing style was pretty clunky and the dialogue poor.
It took some time before I felt interested enough in the story to actually *want* to read it rather than feel obliged to because I needed to do a NetGalley review. In fact, I was probably three-quarters of the way through before started enjoying it. But even then I kept getting thrown out of the story by awkwardly worded passages or odd dialogue.
Overall, I was seriously disappointed by this book. The storyline was good, but the delivery poor. I never lost myself in this book, which is a shame.
I was provided with a free e-copy of this book via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
I've left it a few days between finishing the book and writing the review just in case my views change, but nope, after closing the book it left my mind totally, which personally I don't feel is the sign of a great story.
The premise is excellent - who could fail to be intrigued by the idea of opening a book and the story being all about you? However, the premise was let down by a keep-you-in-the-dark plot and a series of shallow, weak and generally unlikeable characters. Ok, I admit, I don't like 'keep-you-in-the-dark' plots because I am generally rubbish at guessing what's going on. I'm the sort of person who needs movie plots explaining to me *as I'm watching them*. So this meant that I spent about half the book wondering what the hell was going on. This wasn't helped by the fact that the writing style was pretty clunky and the dialogue poor.
It took some time before I felt interested enough in the story to actually *want* to read it rather than feel obliged to because I needed to do a NetGalley review. In fact, I was probably three-quarters of the way through before started enjoying it. But even then I kept getting thrown out of the story by awkwardly worded passages or odd dialogue.
Overall, I was seriously disappointed by this book. The storyline was good, but the delivery poor. I never lost myself in this book, which is a shame.
I was provided with a free e-copy of this book via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.