Today, I'm reviewing: A Stranger in the House which was the read along book for #Spookathon.
This book is extremely poorly written with a lot of very annoying things.
First, the POVs are all over the place. You keep on jumping from one character to the next without real definition or break except a paragraph break and the paragraph can be very unrelated even in the same chapter.
Then you have the obvious lack of research and realism about the car accident's consequences on the main character's body which basically is a turning point in the story.
A lot of the characters body motion or action aren't realistic either and the prose tend to be repetitive especially with Tom.
And the list could go on...
So I had a lot of problem with reading this book since for the first 10 chapters all I could see was everything that was "wrong" in it. Then after that the plot start showing a bit better. So many my attention to the annoying detail faded or maybe the writing got better, I'm not sure.
For a thriller, it was kind of predictable. But I guess the story is ok and there are some plot twists.
Then there is Tom. I think that I have never seen such a crappy character taking that much of attention. It was said that he was supposed to be on his wife side when all hell breaks lose and people think she is lying well, he wasn't. Tom is probably the worse husband a woman can get, like really and he is self absorbed, his worry about his wife going to jail is what that's going to do to him, after all he cheat on her on her first night there, then again. And she still manage to forgive him, like what the fuck, you're not even married to the idiot get your money girl and run, leave him to Brigit, seriously they deserve each other.
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