I’m disappointed in this book. I have been wanting a really good twisty mystery/thriller lately and based on the description and some of the other reviews I really thought this was going to be it. But sadly it was not. It read much more like chick lit than a thriller, and it’s only “fast-paced,” as the description says, because it covers so much time and jumps ahead so much, with months between chapters, not the exciting, edge of your seat, can’t stop reading feeling that you usually would think “fast-paced” means.
This book was SO unrealistic, and that usually doesn’t make me bring my rating down, because how often is fiction truly realistic? But so much of this had me rolling my eyes. Emily put up with so much from both Adam and Pammie that I was just frustrated. Why didn’t she stand up for herself or talk to Adam about her concerns like a normal committed relationship would do, or for heavens sake see the red flags and get the heck out of this crazy family? At the very least this whole book would have been a non-issue with just a little bit of communication.
So almost the entire book is just this, jumping ahead throughout Adam and Emily’s relationship, zooming along, his mother acting crazy. There are one or two things throughout that I'm sure the author meant as twists but they were so predictable. And the we finally get to “the big twist” in the last few chapters and I just rolled my eyes. It made the rest of the book make no sense at all. At least give us more of an explanation! But no, we are just expected to believe this randomness at face value, and so many things are left unexplained.
Sorry to say but I’m disappointed in this. I would not classify this as a thriller because nothing thrilling happened. There was nothing scary and no creep factor at all. And while it was a little bit of mystery the twists were either predictable or made me roll my eyes. A low 3 stars for me.
This book was SO unrealistic, and that usually doesn’t make me bring my rating down, because how often is fiction truly realistic? But so much of this had me rolling my eyes. Emily put up with so much from both Adam and Pammie that I was just frustrated. Why didn’t she stand up for herself or talk to Adam about her concerns like a normal committed relationship would do, or for heavens sake see the red flags and get the heck out of this crazy family? At the very least this whole book would have been a non-issue with just a little bit of communication.
So almost the entire book is just this, jumping ahead throughout Adam and Emily’s relationship, zooming along, his mother acting crazy. There are one or two things throughout that I'm sure the author meant as twists but they were so predictable. And the we finally get to “the big twist” in the last few chapters and I just rolled my eyes. It made the rest of the book make no sense at all. At least give us more of an explanation! But no, we are just expected to believe this randomness at face value, and so many things are left unexplained.
Sorry to say but I’m disappointed in this. I would not classify this as a thriller because nothing thrilling happened. There was nothing scary and no creep factor at all. And while it was a little bit of mystery the twists were either predictable or made me roll my eyes. A low 3 stars for me.