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Dead to Her
by Sarah Pinborough
Have you ever been disappointed in a book by an author you typically love?
Dead to Her by Sarah Pinborough had been on my shelf since February and I finally finished it yesterday. I have to be honest - this was almost the first book I DNF’d since I was a teenager. Between my hatred of saying I DNF’d a book, and my love for Behind Her Eyes and Cross My Heart, I kept going. I had been shocked to see the low Goodreads rating (3.28) when I started, but I totally get it now.
I am not someone deterred by the length of a book. I even seek out longer ones because I’m weird like that. But this book y’all - at 383 pages I felt like it was 100 pages too long. By the time I got to page 300 I was dying for it to hurry up and end.
The book doesn’t really get going until William, the must older husband of Keisha, ends up in a coma from an attempted murder. The cops immediately suspect Keisha, but Marcie, the other much younger wife, and her husband Jason also have motives for wanting him dead. The story is told by both Keisha and Marcie, but once Keisha is arrested it’s mostly from Marcie’s POV. Honestly, I would of been fine with it being 100% from Marcie’s POV.
My biggest complaint is the amount of superfluous scenes. There had to have been at least 10 descriptive sex scenes that served zero purpose. There’s only so many times one cares to read about the Viagra the man took to please his much younger wife...one or two was MORE than enough. Black magic/voodo is also a big part of the book. If you’ve read Behind Her Eyes you know Sarah’s book aren’t the most realistic, so I didn’t mind this element too much. I actually found it kind of interesting because I really didn’t know much about it.
The mystery itself was well done. I know the reader needed some backstory to understand the motives, but it seemed excessive in this book. Maybe it’s just because the characters were all pretty awful people? In classic Sarah Pinborough style though, the ending will leave you saying “WTF did I just read?”. I can honestly say I did not see the ending coming, so props for that.
3
Dead to Her by Sarah Pinborough had been on my shelf since February and I finally finished it yesterday. I have to be honest - this was almost the first book I DNF’d since I was a teenager. Between my hatred of saying I DNF’d a book, and my love for Behind Her Eyes and Cross My Heart, I kept going. I had been shocked to see the low Goodreads rating (3.28) when I started, but I totally get it now.
I am not someone deterred by the length of a book. I even seek out longer ones because I’m weird like that. But this book y’all - at 383 pages I felt like it was 100 pages too long. By the time I got to page 300 I was dying for it to hurry up and end.
The book doesn’t really get going until William, the must older husband of Keisha, ends up in a coma from an attempted murder. The cops immediately suspect Keisha, but Marcie, the other much younger wife, and her husband Jason also have motives for wanting him dead. The story is told by both Keisha and Marcie, but once Keisha is arrested it’s mostly from Marcie’s POV. Honestly, I would of been fine with it being 100% from Marcie’s POV.
My biggest complaint is the amount of superfluous scenes. There had to have been at least 10 descriptive sex scenes that served zero purpose. There’s only so many times one cares to read about the Viagra the man took to please his much younger wife...one or two was MORE than enough. Black magic/voodo is also a big part of the book. If you’ve read Behind Her Eyes you know Sarah’s book aren’t the most realistic, so I didn’t mind this element too much. I actually found it kind of interesting because I really didn’t know much about it.
The mystery itself was well done. I know the reader needed some backstory to understand the motives, but it seemed excessive in this book. Maybe it’s just because the characters were all pretty awful people? In classic Sarah Pinborough style though, the ending will leave you saying “WTF did I just read?”. I can honestly say I did not see the ending coming, so props for that.
3