A review by bookhoarder_alissa
London Fields by Martin Amis
2.0
Well that was quite a waste of time. Thanks for nothing, professor.
The beginning sounded really promising with the 'murderee' knowing when she will die and who will be her killer. Also the narrative situation that mixed the narrator/author with the story was intitally enjoyable. However, instead of getting the promised "whydunnit" it was after the introductory chapters just 400 pages of awful, boring characters without any real development. Add to that the casual mentioning of rape and a character who prides himself if he does not rape a woman and an overall objectification of all female characters.
Really hoped for the ending to be surprising but despite the last chapters picking up a little bit of speed again, the attempted plot twist was honestly just silly because it basically made the previous 400 pages next to redundant. I skim read many paragraphs amd I don't think I missed out on anything.
The beginning sounded really promising with the 'murderee' knowing when she will die and who will be her killer. Also the narrative situation that mixed the narrator/author with the story was intitally enjoyable. However, instead of getting the promised "whydunnit" it was after the introductory chapters just 400 pages of awful, boring characters without any real development. Add to that the casual mentioning of rape and a character who prides himself if he does not rape a woman and an overall objectification of all female characters.
Really hoped for the ending to be surprising but despite the last chapters picking up a little bit of speed again, the attempted plot twist was honestly just silly because it basically made the previous 400 pages next to redundant. I skim read many paragraphs amd I don't think I missed out on anything.