A review by arielhayes
The Main Character by Jaclyn Goldis

3.0

Thank you to NetGalley for the advanced copy of this book. I enjoyed the author’s debut, the Chateau, but unfortunately Main Character was a miss on most levels for me. I generally find that multi POV novels that move in a linear timeline don’t work well for truly building suspense and oftentimes feel like a lazy way to move the story forward - this is what I felt in this case - it was just too cluttered with narrators. The book had a good premise and a promising setting, but the execution wasn’t there for me. Despite the many points of view most of the characters weren’t well developed and the mystery factor wasn’t high enough to distract from the one dimensional characters.