I wanted to love this book. It had a glowing review from Karin Slaughter and the author is quite prolific so I really thought it would be great. Unfortunately it was not.
The author was unnecessarily wordy and included details that were entirely unnecessary (I do not need to know the exact height of every character introduced). To illustrate my point, the book starts as the main character is waking up for her first day of work; that work day does not end until page 162. That’s over 160 pages to tell us about roughly 14 hours. The amount of detail is tedious and boring and unnecessary and had me skimming and skipping ahead quite a lot.
The author attempts to tackle big issues such as gender inequality in the workplace as well as presenting a solving an interesting mystery. Unfortunately the whole book was killed in the delivery for me.
The author was unnecessarily wordy and included details that were entirely unnecessary (I do not need to know the exact height of every character introduced). To illustrate my point, the book starts as the main character is waking up for her first day of work; that work day does not end until page 162. That’s over 160 pages to tell us about roughly 14 hours. The amount of detail is tedious and boring and unnecessary and had me skimming and skipping ahead quite a lot.
The author attempts to tackle big issues such as gender inequality in the workplace as well as presenting a solving an interesting mystery. Unfortunately the whole book was killed in the delivery for me.