This is my most anticipated read of January and I am excited to say that it lived up to the hype for me! Alex Michaelides is one of my favorite authors and I always look forward to his new books.
This book has the ultimate unreliable narrator, Elliott. He was quite interesting, and I loved his character. He was a beautiful mess, and it was a lot of fun. I loved that it was told from the first person, so we got to hear his perspective. It made it feel that much more real to me.
The setting was fun, an isolated Greek island. I am always a fan of isolated locations, and this one just worked. It seemed gorgeous and just the perfect location for the story to play out. There was a part at the end with the police that was a little off, but the rest of the book worked that I didn’t think too hard on it.
The pacing was a little slow in the beginning but to me it was the world building. It wasn’t a bad slow, or one that annoyed me, rather, it was a slow that pulled me into the story and grabbed my interest so I would stay engaged throughout. The good kind of slow, that you know will pay off later in the book, and boy did it.
loved the twist at the end and how it wrapped up, to me this book had a wonderful ending and I would only change one minor thing but it was fun to see how everything came to fruition.
This book has the ultimate unreliable narrator, Elliott. He was quite interesting, and I loved his character. He was a beautiful mess, and it was a lot of fun. I loved that it was told from the first person, so we got to hear his perspective. It made it feel that much more real to me.
The setting was fun, an isolated Greek island. I am always a fan of isolated locations, and this one just worked. It seemed gorgeous and just the perfect location for the story to play out. There was a part at the end with the police that was a little off, but the rest of the book worked that I didn’t think too hard on it.
The pacing was a little slow in the beginning but to me it was the world building. It wasn’t a bad slow, or one that annoyed me, rather, it was a slow that pulled me into the story and grabbed my interest so I would stay engaged throughout. The good kind of slow, that you know will pay off later in the book, and boy did it.
loved the twist at the end and how it wrapped up, to me this book had a wonderful ending and I would only change one minor thing but it was fun to see how everything came to fruition.