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A review by purplesky02
Under Your Skin by Sabine Durrant
2.0
This book....
There were things I liked about: it was a page turner, I wanted to keep reading to see what happened next. I liked Clara, the main character's best-friend.
Other than that, it was a frustrating read. There were a lot of sentence fragments, which got to be annoying after a while
Spoilers below
The thing I disliked most about the book was the ending, which I felt came out of nowhere. It's very hard to make the first person narrator the killer. The whole novel, we are reading Gaby's thoughts, feelings and actions. She never mentions anything that would lead us to believe that she was the killer. She expresses only confusion when the police investigate her. Then bang, last 10 pages...oh yeah, I did it! Here's how! It made the whole book feel pointless to me. Why get the journalist to help her investigate? Even if she thought it would lead nowhere, why take the risk, knowing she herself was the killer? I also find it unbelievable that the police were so incompetent that they could not find any more physical evidence against Gaby. She is a first time killer, and she leaves no trace of DNA or anything on the body? After stuffing poor Ania in a suitcase and planting her body in the park? What?
And what a horrible person Gaby turned out to be. Killing her husband and framing him for the murder? Geez. It was good until the last 10 pages or so.
There were things I liked about: it was a page turner, I wanted to keep reading to see what happened next. I liked Clara, the main character's best-friend.
Other than that, it was a frustrating read. There were a lot of sentence fragments, which got to be annoying after a while
Spoilers below
The thing I disliked most about the book was the ending, which I felt came out of nowhere. It's very hard to make the first person narrator the killer. The whole novel, we are reading Gaby's thoughts, feelings and actions. She never mentions anything that would lead us to believe that she was the killer. She expresses only confusion when the police investigate her. Then bang, last 10 pages...oh yeah, I did it! Here's how! It made the whole book feel pointless to me. Why get the journalist to help her investigate? Even if she thought it would lead nowhere, why take the risk, knowing she herself was the killer? I also find it unbelievable that the police were so incompetent that they could not find any more physical evidence against Gaby. She is a first time killer, and she leaves no trace of DNA or anything on the body? After stuffing poor Ania in a suitcase and planting her body in the park? What?
And what a horrible person Gaby turned out to be. Killing her husband and framing him for the murder? Geez. It was good until the last 10 pages or so.