telercoi 's review for:

All Around the Town by Mary Higgins Clark

1.0

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Good lord, I've now read two of Mary Higgins Clark's books and both involved child molestation and memory loss. This one added the trope of dissociative identity disorder, which may have been new and exciting at the time of publication but is definitely played all the way out now. Frankly, the only reason I gave it two stars is that the last thirty pages or so did have some decent tension, but there was so much unpleasantness to slog through to get there. It took me twenty years to give Mary Higgins Clark another go, figuring maybe I was just too young for the subject matter, but nope, seems her writing style is just not for me in any way. Maybe I'll give her a try again in another twenty years.

Edited to say that after reflecting on it and letting the ending tension wear off, I bumped it down to one star. I really truly did not care for it.