Ms. Tammy

Whew! What a story. I am so glad that is over. I wouldn't say I liked this book, nor did I enjoy reading it, but I endured it to the end because I wanted to see what would happen with Marcos and the pregnant female. This book was challenging for me to read because it had a lot of drawn-out narration and not much dialogue. It is told from a third-person perspective. The reader experiences this dystopian society through the eyes of the main male character. He is dealing with a loss and is questioning what society has become after The Transition. I was with Marcos until he started raping the female head he received as a gift. Then, when she fell pregnant, I really thought the author was doing too much. The protagonist turns out to be the anti-hero, and the author leaves the readers hanging.

This book was a mystery, but it wasn't a thriller. There was nothing in this book that left you on the edge of your seat or biting your nails. The Wives was Gone Girl gone mad...mad in the way only the patriarchy can make women. This is a first-person narrative of a wife who is married to a polygamist. Depending on one's views on polygamy, you may empathize with the main character or loathe her. When the twist is revealed around 60-70 percent into the book, there is not enough tension built up to make the reader feel shocked. The twist elicits more of an eye roll because you read through 70 percent of the book just to find out our main character is an unreliable narrator. For me, the only mystery in this book was what really caused Thursday's descent into madness.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. I read it out of order, and I can't wait to go back and read the other books in this series. Will Trent is a very likable character. I appreciated Sara Linton, but I found myself enjoying the chapters that were written from Will's perspective the most. I enjoyed the author's descriptive writing and deep knowledge of the subject matter.

Indelible book #4 in the Grant County series has been my least favorite. In Karen Slaughter's style, the book opens up, and almost immediately, we are thrust into the action when armed bandits invade the police station of Grant County. She takes us on a journey to the past, explaining how Jefferey and Sara's love story began. I didn't find it much of a love story. Jefferey is the town playboy and a reformed bad boy. It is almost annoying because it is a trope of the good girl falling in love with the bad boy.

I am on vacation, and I was looking for a domestic thriller to lose myself in for a little while. I read the reviews for this book and was excited to read it. I started out listening to the audio but switched to the printed format to pay better attention. After finishing this book, I wished I had stuck with the audio version because at least that one was free. This book's premise is that an unreliable narrator is trying to find out why she ended up in a hospital in a coma. We go back and forth through time as the character tries to figure out what happened. The author accomplishes this by telling the story in the present, the recent past, and the not so recent past. The not so recent past is relayed to us through a series of journal entries. This would not have been so bad, but then we find out that the character's sister writes the journal entries. So as you can imagine, this flips the whole narrative on its head. Not only do we have an unreliable narrator, but we also have a crazy one who, as an adult, is still engaging with a childhood imaginary friend. If this isn't enough, we have some sort of subplot happening that a jilted college lover is stalking our main character from almost two decades ago. It really is all too much. The plot is unbelievable, and the storytelling is way too convoluted, and this author is pretentious and thinks way too highly of their writing abilities. I still rate the book a solid three stars because the sheer ridiculousness of it kept me inside my hotel room all day long.