A House With Good Bones

I'm sorry, but I really really disliked this one, so DNF at about 50%. Normally I form my opinions and that's it, but this time I had to search online if I was just seeing things. Nope, apparently not, the main character in this one is virtually indistinguishable from the one in [b:The Hollow Places 50892288 The Hollow Places T. Kingfisher https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1600022295l/50892288.SY75.jpg 75788139]. 30s, sarcastic, works in some city, but needs to go back to her family home, boo hoo. A huge part of my problems started out with that. I don't like her. She isn't funny, she isn't interesting. This one (Sam??) is even worse with her CONSTANT mentions of how she is fat, therefore doctors would let her die because of that. At one point she even does the “I am fat, but I am healthier than anyone” thing. She also claims her mother, a known, politically active liberal is suddenly a racist white person. Even when the Latina her mother was supposedly racist to says it wasn't racism. Yet she keeps bringing it up, because of an old painting of a couple, where the man wears a confederate uniform, that is a piece of heirloom. Oh, we also have a really eyerolling paragraph about how the patriarchy is oppressing women through... leg shaving. With all the Current Year comments and lame attempts at jokes, there isn't even much buildup for the mistery. It just feels boring and annoying, really. Halfway in, I was trying to rush through the book, then I realised I didn't care about anyone in it. So then why not just stop and find something better?