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fernimal 's review for:
The Crossing Places
by Elly Griffiths
Audiobook.
What felt like a long anticipated wait to read this book finished in a long sigh of disappointment when I got to the end of the book. It maybe should have even been a DNF as I could never fully sink my teeth into it. Maybe at this point I have read and listened to far too many murder mystery books…as this one did not make the cut.
The plot and its twists didn’t really work in the end. I found that the characters to be lacking, the relationships to each other seemed superficial and there were a lot of parts to the story that didn’t seem to add up. If Ruth loved the salt marshes so much, why did she seem to be clueless about how to navigate them? Wouldn’t she have spent her time exploring them? Why was Ruth so mad at Shona for having affair with a married man, and yet she herself did the same thing? As for the detective, he seemed to bumble about, and have no ability to manage a team and yet somehow he “just knew”. It was maddening!
I could go on… but I won’t.
This one wasn’t for me.
What felt like a long anticipated wait to read this book finished in a long sigh of disappointment when I got to the end of the book. It maybe should have even been a DNF as I could never fully sink my teeth into it. Maybe at this point I have read and listened to far too many murder mystery books…as this one did not make the cut.
The plot and its twists didn’t really work in the end. I found that the characters to be lacking, the relationships to each other seemed superficial and there were a lot of parts to the story that didn’t seem to add up. If Ruth loved the salt marshes so much, why did she seem to be clueless about how to navigate them? Wouldn’t she have spent her time exploring them? Why was Ruth so mad at Shona for having affair with a married man, and yet she herself did the same thing? As for the detective, he seemed to bumble about, and have no ability to manage a team and yet somehow he “just knew”. It was maddening!
I could go on… but I won’t.
This one wasn’t for me.