None of This Is True

Like every second woman at this point, I love true crime stuff, with the caveat that it's not emotionalised bullshit. I want facts, not a narrator talking about the victim's smile lighting up every room. Fuck off with that cheesy, ridiculous stuff.
So I looked at this and was like “okay, maybe I can try”.

And it was awful.
We have Alix and Josie, two women with polar opposite lives. Alix is a glamourous podcast host and Josie is a repressed, humble housewife. All they have in common is having been born on the very same day at the same hospital. So when Josie begs Alix to document her breaking free of her life, they start working together on a project.

You know, a book like this needs exceptional character writing. We have two people interacting, yet somehow both of them have the inner monologue of the exact same type;that overly detailed one that pretends to be deep by “noticing” ridiculous shit you never specifically think about. Or do you look at people and start thinking about random details regularly? In every bit of your thinking?
Plus, with a book that is based on the contrast of these two, at least make them sound sufficiently different.

The twists were not much either. Like there aren't many ways you can spice up a story with so few characters and so little going on between them. If you can't guess it... what's wrong with you?

After years of reading mostly fantasy, this isn't enough. It's so basic and so uninteresting.