Tag: Contemporary
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The Housemaid (The Housemaid #1)
Despite predictable, heavy-handed twists, brisk pacing and nuanced characters make The Housemaid an engaging read. 7/10
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The Seven Year Slip
The Seven Year Slip is a forgettable time travel romance with a weak plot and unearned love story. Painfully average. 5.5/10
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Famous
Famous by Blake Crouch is a gripping 1-sit thriller that starts fast but ends abruptly, falling short of its potential. 6.5/10
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The Paradise Problem
The Paradise Problem is a romcom that juggles class critique, steamy romance, and tonal shifts. Fun but flawed and morally dubious ending. 7.5/10
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Funny Story
Funny Story stumbles through predictable romcom tropes with a thin lead and frustrating drama, but still offers a decent, pretty sweet ride. 6.5/10.
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Bunny
Bunny is more of a puzzle than a book and I don’t know how to rate that. I spent more time confused than anything else whilst reading and yet I wanted to keep reading it. It’s a book best experienced blindly and not one that can or cannot be recommended based on any standard criteria.
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The Last
Turns out that mixing murder mystery, post apocalypse and survival doesn’t make a very good cocktail. The Last falls short in each genre, and if the blurb is intriguing, its execution is quite lacklustre. Not an offensive read but there’s bound to be better things to read.
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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.