i feel fooled. this book promised much more than it delivered. boring characters. inadequate explanations (if there were any at all). choppy plot. medi feel fooled. this book promised much more than it delivered. boring characters. inadequate explanations (if there were any at all). choppy plot. mediocre writing. useless inclusions (i.e., i'm looking at you, sully). the only aspect of the novel i liked, lee, got the short end of the stick! just a let down in general. i hurried through the second half just so i could be rid of it....more
1. I did not expect to love this book so much or completely align myself with a murderer. 2. Many elements were quiteMy Normals Thoughts About Normal:
1. I did not expect to love this book so much or completely align myself with a murderer. 2. Many elements were quite unrealistic, but I thought it was so well written that it didn't matter much. I just wanted to see what would happen next. 3. It would have been nice to know a bit more about the MC's motives for killing/kidnapping. Just a bit. 4. It also would have been nice to know what the hell he did to acquire his money because homeboy obviously had a healthy amount of it, unusual for someone whose main line of work is not a 9 to 5. 5. I did not buy the "romance" between the MC and Rachel. It was incredibly too fast. A woman you've known for a few weeks makes you have a change of heart during that short time period? I don't think so. 6. Annie was intriguing. I would have liked to know more about her. 7. Erica was fascinating. I loved how she turned the MC's world upside down; he was not prepared for a woman like her and that gave me so much glee. She was his equal and I believe she was his undoing, not Rachel. Toward the end, I was secretly rooting for them like a British Bonnie and Clyde. 8. I was so disappointed the book was not longer. I wanted more....more
I enjoyed this book immensely; it kept my attention from start to finish and refused to let go. It was fun attempting to figure out what happened the I enjoyed this book immensely; it kept my attention from start to finish and refused to let go. It was fun attempting to figure out what happened the night of the murders (which 90% of readers will not guess correctly, at least not all of it) and the transition between past and present worked well. As indicated in the title, the novel had an overall dark tone, one that settled subtly in your bones for the entirety of the book. The ending was perfect, leaving very few questions to be answered, and the ones that did remain left you feeling okay with having ambiguity. Having read 2 of Flynn's novels, I have only one question: does she write any likable characters? If it wasn't outright dislike, I felt an avid ambivalence for the characters, in this book and Gone Girl. That aside, she tells one hell of a story with so many questionable characters. ...more
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