a_prett's review
2.0
This book gives me the feel that it is the ugly step sister of Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl.
For me it was too all over the place and too many ideas thrown into one book.
For me it was too all over the place and too many ideas thrown into one book.
stravaganxo's review
4.0
Let's start with first impressions, shall we?
I thought this was going to be the kind of book you read once and then tuck away in your bookshelf, forgotten (because, hello? it's a thriller, you read whodunnit, whathappened and all, why should you go to the trouble of reading a second time?) Probably why i don't do this genre much.
I read the synopsis and it reminded me of Gone Girl which I hated despite the rave reviews it garnered. Whaddaya know? I seriously LIKED this book.
First off, it's not plain thriller. It's romance, with a very lyrical language. This book has been divided into books and altogether very symbolic. And the writing. Do you expect to read a mystery with very verbose/poetic language? I didn't.
Random things I liked about this book:
- The way Julianna evolved to the reader
- The way Katrina was personified
- THE PLOT
- Threading together some details that we otherwise tend to overlook
Speaking of details though, I felt as if some were wholly not needed, Some characters that wave their hands out of some chapters had whole chapters devoted to their biography.
And did i tell you that i'm going to read this book again, more slowly this time?
I thought this was going to be the kind of book you read once and then tuck away in your bookshelf, forgotten (because, hello? it's a thriller, you read whodunnit, whathappened and all, why should you go to the trouble of reading a second time?) Probably why i don't do this genre much.
I read the synopsis and it reminded me of Gone Girl which I hated despite the rave reviews it garnered. Whaddaya know? I seriously LIKED this book.
First off, it's not plain thriller. It's romance, with a very lyrical language. This book has been divided into books and altogether very symbolic. And the writing. Do you expect to read a mystery with very verbose/poetic language? I didn't.
Random things I liked about this book:
- The way Julianna evolved to the reader
- The way Katrina was personified
- THE PLOT
- Threading together some details that we otherwise tend to overlook
Speaking of details though, I felt as if some were wholly not needed, Some characters that wave their hands out of some chapters had whole chapters devoted to their biography.
And did i tell you that i'm going to read this book again, more slowly this time?
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