Select language, opens an overlay

Comment

Jan 25, 2018NancyDrew_1961 rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
I rarely abandon a book once started, but the uninspired writing style, the fact that there was little I could find about the hackneyed characters to make me put in the effort to understand and empathize with their behavior and motivations, and the small but distracting errors in scene descriptions and continuity within a particular "scene," made me happy to jettison this particular work only a third of the way through. (And speaking of sub-par writing, my apologies for the run-on sentence!) Too many current works seem to be trying (and sometimes failing) to cash in on the twisty-ending "The Girl on the Train" genre, and to me, this was another unfortunate example of that trend. Sadly, I found this work uninspired and downright insulting to the seasoned reader used to more compelling reads. Perhaps I would have found this book more rewarding if I could have slogged through more pages, but life is too short, and there are many more interesting and well-written books to explore...