Category: Solo Reading
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Pines (Wayward Pines #1)
Whilst it doesn’t reach the heights of Blake Crouch’s other books, Pines is still a solid mystery thriller. It feels a bit more cliché and the ending whilst it is a solid twist isn’t a particularly strong motivator to read the sequels.
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Happy Place
It’s disappointing to see Emily Henry fall into the trap of fully relying on the lazy and frustrating “characters won’t talk” cliché. Happy Place doesn’t really tell a story outside of its flashback sequences and the protagonist pretending to be the victim doesn’t make her any more likeable.
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The Corset
Depressing to a fault, The Corset is not a good time. However, what really brings it down is the racist secondary protagonist who faces no repercussion for her beliefs. To top it off, some chapters serve no purpose outside of padding out the word count.
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The Guest List
The Guest List is a murder mystery where the murder happens in the last 50 pages which makes it a pretty bad murder mystery. For the other 250 odd pages before it’s just depressing people being depressed about their depressing lives.