Unimpressed

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I’ve read a lot of genre-based complaints about this one but I thought that if I went into it understanding that it’s not a thriller, I wouldn’t have as many issues.

Unfortunately that didn’t turn out to be the case. I found the writing self-indulgent and rambling and the long chapters certainly did it no favors. I wish I’d just skipped to page 291 - The Girl section and read from there because the rest of the book was ancillary and didn’t contribute, emotionally or plot wise, to the story. Because of the way the perspectives were written, there was no apparent growth in any of the characters.

The dialect bothered me as well, not because I dislike dialects but because I deal with a lot of immigrants from the Caribbean and none of them speak with any sort of grammar structure similar to the one used here.

Ultimately I just didn’t connect with the characters and since this is such a character-driven book, there really was nothing left to hold on to. 2.5 stars.