This was an incredibly bizarre book, but that is certainly not to say that it was a bad book. I enjoyed it thoroughly for all of its bizarreness. I need to sit at think about it for a while after I finished it before I could put my thoughts into a review.
We have an admittedly unreliable narrator telling us the tale of a group of friends on a remote Greek island for a weekend. He tells of his past with all of the members of the group and the tale of the murder that takes place before the weekend is over.
A good portion of this book is devoted to the narrators past history and during these portions I frequently found myself a bit bored and wondering how any of it tied into the murder mystery on a remote Greek island that I had been promised. It did ultimately tie in and I was genuinely shocked by the ending of this book, but getting there felt a bit tedious.
Rating this book was incredibly difficult because I loved how floored I was by the ending, however I struggled to get through some of the slower portions of the book. Ultimately, I rated this book 3.5 stars (rounded to 4 for the 5 star rating system). I would still highly recommend this book because even though it has some slow sections the ending is absolutely worth it.
I listened to this audio ARC of this book and the narration is spectacularly done, so if you are an audiobook person, this is definitely one worth listening to on audio.
Thank you to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for a copy of this book. I leave this review voluntarily.
We have an admittedly unreliable narrator telling us the tale of a group of friends on a remote Greek island for a weekend. He tells of his past with all of the members of the group and the tale of the murder that takes place before the weekend is over.
A good portion of this book is devoted to the narrators past history and during these portions I frequently found myself a bit bored and wondering how any of it tied into the murder mystery on a remote Greek island that I had been promised. It did ultimately tie in and I was genuinely shocked by the ending of this book, but getting there felt a bit tedious.
Rating this book was incredibly difficult because I loved how floored I was by the ending, however I struggled to get through some of the slower portions of the book. Ultimately, I rated this book 3.5 stars (rounded to 4 for the 5 star rating system). I would still highly recommend this book because even though it has some slow sections the ending is absolutely worth it.
I listened to this audio ARC of this book and the narration is spectacularly done, so if you are an audiobook person, this is definitely one worth listening to on audio.
Thank you to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for a copy of this book. I leave this review voluntarily.