I was initially drawn to Saving Missy due to the current universal focus on loneliness and mental health. Missy is an old lady, who is lonely; her son is living miles away, her husband died and her daughter is married to a woman she disapproves. After a fall in the park, she meets Sylvie and her life begins to change and (in my opinion) becomes implausible.
I simply don't believe in what follows next in the story, or the end. I think it should have ended differently.
Personally, her new fiends are not particularly likeable. They just see Missy as someone sitting on a treasure chest of wealth, and therefore treat her as a cash cow. They also guilt trip her into looking after a dog when she didn't want to, and the pair seem to scheme it and talk about her behind her back. Other readers may think differently, but one character did barge her way into Missy's home after latching onto her at a café very early on in the book.
The author has created a well written novel and it's not a bad first novel. Not sure I will read anything else she writes because this had a predictable ending.
I simply don't believe in what follows next in the story, or the end. I think it should have ended differently.
Personally, her new fiends are not particularly likeable. They just see Missy as someone sitting on a treasure chest of wealth, and therefore treat her as a cash cow. They also guilt trip her into looking after a dog when she didn't want to, and the pair seem to scheme it and talk about her behind her back. Other readers may think differently, but one character did barge her way into Missy's home after latching onto her at a café very early on in the book.
The author has created a well written novel and it's not a bad first novel. Not sure I will read anything else she writes because this had a predictable ending.