All right all right all right: this book’s straight, intriguing opening and slow burn whodunnit style high tension premise hooked me at the beginning.
Since I’ve read the Missing Girls and huge endorsement of Reese Witherspoon book club, I keen on enjoying Megan Miranda’s writing style and devouring her gripping page turners but even though the premise picked my interest, the execution of this slow burn thriller which quickly leads us to different suspects and confuses the hell of our minds didn’t work well with me!
The idea of bunch of academicians or people who worked for the college inhabiting at a quite neighborhood, fifty closely packed homes which are similarly designed, modestly priced, oriented toward the water named Hollow’s Edge like a big connected family till two of them had been killed and one of them got convicted from the murder excited me a lot. But I could not find anything about the characters perceptible to differentiate them from each other. Most of them were so dull, boring , ordinary. They were too boring, suffering from lack of intelligence or charisma to be killer. And at the end we got the real reason why those uninteresting people couldn’t be killers instead of irritating the hell of us.
At the beginning of the story we witness Ruby Fletcher’s return to the neighborhood, freshly out from prison, appearing at her old condo, saying hi to her roommate Harper Nash as if she wasn’t convicted for killing Truett family!
Now her conviction is overturned and her so called lovely neighbors testified against her to put her behind the bars! But surprise, surprise: Ruby is back! And she is so determined to avenge, making pay someone who tries to put blame on her!
Harper Nash, who was 30 years old, always seeing Ruby not only as her roommate but her younger sister scares of her but she doesn’t have guts to tell her move away. Slowly Ruby starts to occupy her place to trap Harper in her own place by wearing her clothes, driving her car, spending her money. The only thing irritates Harper was not Ruby’s suspicious attitudes. She starts getting threatening notes, feeling like someone is always watching her. Could Ruby tell her the truth from the beginning? Could someone in the neighborhood be involved in the killings of Truett family?
It seems like entire neighborhood imagined themselves as judges, juries and prosecutors of the community but giving the power to the wrongful hands may turn them into monsters or murderers.
Overall: the storyline was creative and the conclusion was semi satisfying but characterization was a little weak, storytelling is a little monotone and perpetrator is foreseeable!
It’s definitely not a bad book. I still enjoyed the slow burn whodunnit mystery idea at a close knit neighborhood and the author perfectly succeeded confusing our minds by pointing us different directions to doubt about the different characters’ suspicious motives!
So I’m giving three mysterious, revenge, I see you stars! It’s definitely moderate, easy read! I didn’t fall in love with the book but it’s still better than the most thriller books I’ve lately read.
I’m looking forward to read upcoming books of the author!
Special thanks to Netgalley and Simon&Schuster for sharing this one of the most anticipated thriller books’ digital reviewer copy with me in exchange my honest opinions.
Since I’ve read the Missing Girls and huge endorsement of Reese Witherspoon book club, I keen on enjoying Megan Miranda’s writing style and devouring her gripping page turners but even though the premise picked my interest, the execution of this slow burn thriller which quickly leads us to different suspects and confuses the hell of our minds didn’t work well with me!
The idea of bunch of academicians or people who worked for the college inhabiting at a quite neighborhood, fifty closely packed homes which are similarly designed, modestly priced, oriented toward the water named Hollow’s Edge like a big connected family till two of them had been killed and one of them got convicted from the murder excited me a lot. But I could not find anything about the characters perceptible to differentiate them from each other. Most of them were so dull, boring , ordinary. They were too boring, suffering from lack of intelligence or charisma to be killer. And at the end we got the real reason why those uninteresting people couldn’t be killers instead of irritating the hell of us.
At the beginning of the story we witness Ruby Fletcher’s return to the neighborhood, freshly out from prison, appearing at her old condo, saying hi to her roommate Harper Nash as if she wasn’t convicted for killing Truett family!
Now her conviction is overturned and her so called lovely neighbors testified against her to put her behind the bars! But surprise, surprise: Ruby is back! And she is so determined to avenge, making pay someone who tries to put blame on her!
Harper Nash, who was 30 years old, always seeing Ruby not only as her roommate but her younger sister scares of her but she doesn’t have guts to tell her move away. Slowly Ruby starts to occupy her place to trap Harper in her own place by wearing her clothes, driving her car, spending her money. The only thing irritates Harper was not Ruby’s suspicious attitudes. She starts getting threatening notes, feeling like someone is always watching her. Could Ruby tell her the truth from the beginning? Could someone in the neighborhood be involved in the killings of Truett family?
It seems like entire neighborhood imagined themselves as judges, juries and prosecutors of the community but giving the power to the wrongful hands may turn them into monsters or murderers.
Overall: the storyline was creative and the conclusion was semi satisfying but characterization was a little weak, storytelling is a little monotone and perpetrator is foreseeable!
It’s definitely not a bad book. I still enjoyed the slow burn whodunnit mystery idea at a close knit neighborhood and the author perfectly succeeded confusing our minds by pointing us different directions to doubt about the different characters’ suspicious motives!
So I’m giving three mysterious, revenge, I see you stars! It’s definitely moderate, easy read! I didn’t fall in love with the book but it’s still better than the most thriller books I’ve lately read.
I’m looking forward to read upcoming books of the author!
Special thanks to Netgalley and Simon&Schuster for sharing this one of the most anticipated thriller books’ digital reviewer copy with me in exchange my honest opinions.