Couldn't finish

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This was SO disappointing!! I really like the author's previous book, The Silent Patient, and was really looking forward to reading The Maidens. However, this one just didn't do it for me. Like, at all. It's supposed to be in the thriller category, murder mystery, along those lines, but the story and book itself is just so slow and boring. In the beginning you get the brief gist of things- mother has a daughter in university, and her roommate gets murdered and it's all very suspicious. But after about 30% into the book, that's pretty much still all you get. The pacing and writing is just way too slow, and way too much information overload, even though the chapters are only a few pages long each. Which, being that way, negatively impacts the story. Sometimes that works, but in this case, it just doesn't. I felt like I was just trudging through the entire time, and I couldn't do it anymore.