Boring!

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I was excited about this book but unfortunately it’s a book that sounds better than it is. The idea of an ex-FBI agent wondering if an acquaintance is actually up to no good or if she’s imagining things because she’s become bored of her domestic life sounded fun. Unfortunately the author chose to write this novel without any fun or humor that I expected. In fact she chose to write this book where nothing is really going on for much of the book. This book is really boring and I found it hard to finish. It’s not the fun Seinfeld story about nothing but really just a story with very little going on. The tone is very serious and most of the characters are pretentious. Corie’s husband is very self important and so is her best friend. Corie’s new job is reading Arabic literature to recommend any books that could crossover with English translations. There’s very little of her adopted daughter which could have been fun to lighten the mood and provide some fun domesticity. There is more of her parents who are both fun and quirky but not enough of them to help keep the book on track.

Corie herself seems unappreciative of all she has in her life and really does come across as little more than a bored housewife. She seems wish washy in how much she may love her husband as she often contemplates other men. I did not even realize the author went on a multiple chapter flashback at one point which gives you an idea of how thrilling the story is not to have noticed. I’m sorry to say there is nothing going on here to hold your attention. The plot is mostly very thin with her supposition about her acquaintance and nothing interesting in the many pages of filler. Corie just has nothing going on to make this worth reading without any plot going on. Unfortunately the author also clearly made no effort to research anything about law enforcement which I found annoying, like her weird claim that there is a code that can be used when dialing 911. There are so many authors that add authenticity to their books nowadays that her failure to do so comes across very poorly in a book that centers on an ex-FBI agent. Thank you to the publisher for a chance to read an advance copy in exchange for an honest review.