A review by veereading
This Is Not Over by Holly Brown

1.0

I'm going to be honest here, I really didn't like this novel. I will admit, I wasn't expecting any kind of crazy thriller. But this was just a little more preposterous than I could handle. The story is told from alternating points of view and each woman gets her chance to tell her side. I didn't like either woman. They've got so many issues and they really just never think things through. Their self-centered attitudes and belief in their own righteousness drove me crazy. By the first 70 pages, I could see myself getting bored as the story started to pull away from this dispute and start to focus on other areas of their separate lives. And again, I didn't really care about what else they were going through, or what their past was like. Both of these women were married but I couldn't take either of their marriages seriously. Dawn's marriage seemed very juvenile and lacked any substance. Miranda's marriage was like something out of the 1950's, where the husband is always right and it is the wife's job to look pretty and cook nice dinners. This really bothered me because I like females to have a stronger role than that in the novels I read. I had figured out the ending by the halfway point; it was not as thrilling as one might expect. At the end, I was just wondering why this novel was even a good idea. It really didn't have that much to do with the renting idea that it started with and it just got more and more ridiculous the further you read it. Also, the ending, while technically making sense, didn't actually work. Overall, this novel failed for me because it's story lacked the thrills I was seeking and the characters were very unlikable. For those reasons, I'm giving this a 1/5 stars.