We received this book fore free in exchange for an honest
review.
Unfortunately this book was not well received by my book group.
There are 8 in the group and only 4 of us finished it. The other 4 tried but decided
that the book was so awful they weren’t going to waste their time.
The character of Clare de Witt was felt to be extremely unlikeable
and seems to exist in total isolation. We felt that in some ways that the book had an
almost comic book feeling to it. We didn’t really get the relationship with her
mentor.
The 3 plot lines made it difficult to follow and track what
was happening. Interestingly the character of Clare seen over the three time
periods showed little evolution or development. We felt that she was stuck at
the unlikeable teen stage. This made following the plot of the story difficult
as we had to keep checking the chapter headings to see which time period we
were in.
We had to suspend disbelief about some of the crimes they
didn’t seem to be believable and real.
We did wonder if reading the others in the series would have
helped with the book but decided that life was too short to waste our time on
this.
We were all surprised by the glowing reviews on the various
websites and wondered what we had been missing but decided that 8 people had
read or tired to read it and not one of us liked it. We found the book to be
disappointing and unnecessary.
We would not recommend this book to anyone or to another
book group.
This was viewed as one of the worst books we had read as part of our book group an unfortunately not one person was able to say something positive about this title!
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