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A review by ultramarine316
Our Kind of Cruelty by Araminta Hall
2.0
DNF about half way through.
I just couldn’t get into this one. I don’t think the decision to write it from the POV of the stalker worked. The narrator is unreliable but not in a way that is at all ambiguous or interesting. It’s perfectly clear, as he goes on for over a hundred pages about how his ex’s upcoming wedding to another man is just part of a drawn out game, that this is not the case, that she’s moved on and that the story is plodding towards a violent moment when his expectations are finally dashed. But I didn’t feel any anticipation for it, just frustration at the page after page of repetition. Maybe there’s some twist at the end that turns the whole thing on it’s head but I don’t think it’s worth getting there.
I just couldn’t get into this one. I don’t think the decision to write it from the POV of the stalker worked. The narrator is unreliable but not in a way that is at all ambiguous or interesting. It’s perfectly clear, as he goes on for over a hundred pages about how his ex’s upcoming wedding to another man is just part of a drawn out game, that this is not the case, that she’s moved on and that the story is plodding towards a violent moment when his expectations are finally dashed. But I didn’t feel any anticipation for it, just frustration at the page after page of repetition. Maybe there’s some twist at the end that turns the whole thing on it’s head but I don’t think it’s worth getting there.