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A review by jaxxmcqueen
Someone Else's Skin by Sarah Hilary
3.0
Quite well written. But I couldn't finish it.
I gave up at 76% Yep, I just couldn't read it properly anymore as I started to skip lines, then paragraphs, then pages in a desperate rush to just finish the book...which I couldn't.
It's not that the book is bad, it's just a boring topic. I think it's also aimed more at the female market, so perhaps that influenced my attention.
No, that wasn't why. It was the way the onion of the story was unpeeled, slowly drawing back a layer to reveal what we already knew was coming, a colour-by-numbers standard plot where I was 3 chapters ahead in the plot already, so I spent the whole read waiting for the book to catch up to me. Not one surprise. Okay, I lie--there was one. One that was feeble plot-wise, tacky and lame in my eyes.
I'm giving this a generous 3 stars, because the author can write...but needs help telling a story.
I gave up at 76% Yep, I just couldn't read it properly anymore as I started to skip lines, then paragraphs, then pages in a desperate rush to just finish the book...which I couldn't.
It's not that the book is bad, it's just a boring topic. I think it's also aimed more at the female market, so perhaps that influenced my attention.
No, that wasn't why. It was the way the onion of the story was unpeeled, slowly drawing back a layer to reveal what we already knew was coming, a colour-by-numbers standard plot where I was 3 chapters ahead in the plot already, so I spent the whole read waiting for the book to catch up to me. Not one surprise. Okay, I lie--there was one. One that was feeble plot-wise, tacky and lame in my eyes.
I'm giving this a generous 3 stars, because the author can write...but needs help telling a story.