The Stranger Inside By: Jennifer
Jaynes **
The
book was interesting and well written. The characters and the
locations were well described. BUT, it was NOT a very powerful
story, nor was it a “thriller”. It did NOT grab me and draw me
in to the story. Quite the opposite. I put the book down for 2
days, read 2 chapters, put it back down 2 more days. I then told
myself, “I've got to finish this book so I can move on to hopefully
a better book.
If
it were a movie, it would be one of those “made for tv” movies VS
a movie made for the theaters.
Diane
Christie is a mystery writer. She moved to Fog Harbor, Massachusetts
1 year previously with her college aged daughter and her 16 year old
son. Throughout the book she has these “feelings” that something
is very wrong. The book tries to relate these “feelings” in a
way that the reader interprets them as “intuition” or perhaps, we
begin to wonder, is Diane unknowingly a medium? Is she perhaps
having some type of psychic intuition?
That's
just where my own mind wanted to take the book and it definitely
would have made the book much more interesting – but that's not
where the book went. (If that's what the author attempted... it
failed to deliver in any believable way).
The
ending was extremely disappointing in it's profound ILLEGALITY! I
was thoroughly disgusted at where the author consciously chose to
take it.
The
author, in this case, should have just taken the ending to a
believable (if predictable) conclusion given that the story was
mediocre anyway.
Maybe
the book should be recommended for the elderly people with
pace-makers who need to avoid all excitement.
Hmmmm
….. I liked the book cover.
I
thank netgalley, the publishers and the author for allowing me to
read this book in exchange for an honest review.
I love the cover. Haha.
ReplyDeleteBook was pretty slow. I thought ... "I know, I know, she's this great writer. I get it, no need to keep on saying it. Move on already."
It could have been a good book if told differently. Definitely not a thriller.
I agree. The book could have been so much better. Throw a little kah-raa-zee in there! Something. Anything.
ReplyDeleteBut... I did manage to finish the book, even though at the very ending I kept saying, oh pah-leaze..... tell me it's not going there.....
One of those "write better next time"