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A review by c0d3nam3qt
None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell
1.0
I made a mistake with this one. I should have read the trigger warnings. If I had I probably wouldn’t have read it in the first place.
I was excited about the podcast element and I did actually like that and the documentary inserts. I just find this particular story line over done and it didn’t really add anything new to it. If anything it sucked out the “thrilling” aspects which are normally in these plots.
I felt like for most (like 80%) of this book that I was supposed to think certain parts were twisty, but to me they were so heavy handed it was obvious, so I just had to wait for the characters to catch up. There is only really one “twist” and it more so just adds some ambiguity.
The characters and dialogue for the most part did feel real though. So I think it might have just been an issue with this story specifically and I’ll still probably checkout other works from this author at some point. Although there were some justifications of some behaviours that felt really gross and I wish there had have been a clearer line between what the author vs the characters believe. Unless she believes the same way, in which case that’s disgusting.
In the end of it all, the lines with “wishy-washy, wavy-wavy” and “flibbertigibbet” are still stuck in my head unfortunately.
I was excited about the podcast element and I did actually like that and the documentary inserts. I just find this particular story line over done and it didn’t really add anything new to it. If anything it sucked out the “thrilling” aspects which are normally in these plots.
I felt like for most (like 80%) of this book that I was supposed to think certain parts were twisty, but to me they were so heavy handed it was obvious, so I just had to wait for the characters to catch up. There is only really one “twist” and it more so just adds some ambiguity.
The characters and dialogue for the most part did feel real though. So I think it might have just been an issue with this story specifically and I’ll still probably checkout other works from this author at some point. Although there were some justifications of some behaviours that felt really gross and I wish there had have been a clearer line between what the author vs the characters believe. Unless she believes the same way, in which case that’s disgusting.
In the end of it all, the lines with “wishy-washy, wavy-wavy” and “flibbertigibbet” are still stuck in my head unfortunately.