The Night Sister

I had this on audio and found myself in a position in which I either listened to nothing for hours or I listened to this. This won, but only by a slight margin. There are many things that I super disliked about this story, but what I disliked the most was the narrator. This woman's voice. Uhg. I could forgive her for calling it a “bar-ette” but I cannot forgive her that Sylvie sounds like an 8 year old seductress throughout the entire book. Don't get me wrong, she's a self-absorbed a-hole who is abusing her kid sister, but she's no temptress as a little kid. Margot sounds like an annoying 4 year old-even as an adult. It didn't help that Margot acts like one the entire book.

Amy- I just didn't get her. Rose clearly suffered from being the not-favorite child. JJ is a freakin stalker (that is NOT sexy. EVER. It's sick. It's NOT romantic or normal) and Piper has never progressed past that one day in her life. She even has a ringtone on her cellphone from the same time period. So, we have a bunch of people who never grew up. Oh, oh and I have to say what really, really rang untrue was the fact that these three women had not spoken since they were 12 but now, suddenly, only Piper and Margot knew Amy well enough to care enough to investigate her death. Please. Margot lived in the same town for all those years, for crying out loud. When someone does not talk to your for 20 years, YOU ARE NOT FRIENDS.

What a hot mess. Add to that a “scary” find that is something out of a choose-your-own adventure book and you have another MEH read.

I must say that for five minutes I misunderstood and thought they had found Fenton dressed up in the blue dress with a blonde wig lying dead in the tower and part of me was interested for the first time all novel, but no, that was just my mind inserting things. Sigh. And what the frack was the point of the father's affair? who cared?????

I must remind myself to not read McMahon. This is the second one I've read and I think, what it is, is that she writes a really good premise. Then the story just doesn't deliver.