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A review by fictionandfauna
The Final Scene by Steph Nelson
Did not finish book. Stopped at 33%.
I really wanted to like this!!! I did!
The premise is interesting:
Our lead Brooke is kidnapped off the street just moments from walking through her front door, held captive and forced to role-play her captor’s mother in this sick and twisted recreation of the old woman’s childhood. She’s been stuck there for 10 years.
But sadly, right from the first page the text was riddled with cliches, it felt overly contrived and more like a high school creative writing experiment than a well-constructed and considered adult fiction novel.
There is so little depth or exploration within any of the characters that not a single person is interesting or likeable. When new characters are introduced they are flat and two-dimensional with next to nothing by way of description of their appearance let alone their inner world and story.
I did not care about a single character in this book.
Not a single one.
This was not a good book in my opinion which is a shame, and really boiled down to the writing not being expanded and explored deeply enough.
Thank you to NetGalley and Ticking Tock Press, LLC for the advanced copy. I wish I had better news for you. 😂
The premise is interesting:
Our lead Brooke is kidnapped off the street just moments from walking through her front door, held captive and forced to role-play her captor’s mother in this sick and twisted recreation of the old woman’s childhood. She’s been stuck there for 10 years.
But sadly, right from the first page the text was riddled with cliches, it felt overly contrived and more like a high school creative writing experiment than a well-constructed and considered adult fiction novel.
There is so little depth or exploration within any of the characters that not a single person is interesting or likeable. When new characters are introduced they are flat and two-dimensional with next to nothing by way of description of their appearance let alone their inner world and story.
I did not care about a single character in this book.
Not a single one.
This was not a good book in my opinion which is a shame, and really boiled down to the writing not being expanded and explored deeply enough.
Thank you to NetGalley and Ticking Tock Press, LLC for the advanced copy. I wish I had better news for you. 😂