A review by chasegum
The Couple At Table Six by Daniel Hurst
1.0
IT'S SO BAD THAT I WANT TO GIVE YOU A ZERO. BUT I CANT, SO I GIVE YOU A ONE.
I'm MAD, like extremely angry at what I just read. This book had such an interesting concept. A waitress who herself was a victim of infidelity and by her previous husband now seeking to do the same to picture-perfect couples and makes the wives experience the same feeling she did (sometimes killing them too). Moreover, the couple in this book that she sought after also had their own skeletons in their own closet which raised the stakes of the book as it progressed. The entire reading experience was great and I just needed a good twist. And Hurst did not deliver at all. The "twist" was something I saw from miles away but hoped he wouldn't actually use.... BUT HE DID! It's not even like he referred to the who done it character in a clever or discreet way. This character was so painfully odd and out of the ordinary that the idea of them having any involvement was too good to be true. BUT IT ACTUALLY BEING THEM WAS SUCH A CHEAP WAY TO END THE BOOK. I don't even regularly read thrillers/mysteries (this is the 2nd one I've read ever) and I'm so disappointed. I initially enjoyed the fast pacing of this book, but maybe it would have done better with an extra 50-70 pages (to at least develop a better motive for the final killer). This is the first one-star I've ever given and I didn't expect it to be for this book, but any expectations I had going in, were ruined in the last 10 pages :(
I'm MAD, like extremely angry at what I just read. This book had such an interesting concept. A waitress who herself was a victim of infidelity and by her previous husband now seeking to do the same to picture-perfect couples and makes the wives experience the same feeling she did (sometimes killing them too). Moreover, the couple in this book that she sought after also had their own skeletons in their own closet which raised the stakes of the book as it progressed. The entire reading experience was great and I just needed a good twist. And Hurst did not deliver at all. The "twist" was something I saw from miles away but hoped he wouldn't actually use.... BUT HE DID! It's not even like he referred to the who done it character in a clever or discreet way. This character was so painfully odd and out of the ordinary that the idea of them having any involvement was too good to be true. BUT IT ACTUALLY BEING THEM WAS SUCH A CHEAP WAY TO END THE BOOK. I don't even regularly read thrillers/mysteries (this is the 2nd one I've read ever) and I'm so disappointed. I initially enjoyed the fast pacing of this book, but maybe it would have done better with an extra 50-70 pages (to at least develop a better motive for the final killer). This is the first one-star I've ever given and I didn't expect it to be for this book, but any expectations I had going in, were ruined in the last 10 pages :(