Three September Books

 

Sandwich

1 giant star.

I started this on a Saturday morning and finished it by late Saturday afternoon, reading here and there, entirely on my phone. It was awful. I was hate-reading by the end. 

I'm 99% sure I got the recommendation from this link-up, but I'm genuinely sorry if you liked it. This was a me problem and a terrible character problem. The main character was a really, really (really) sucky person. All of them were sucky people. Except maybe the main character's parents. But all of them: sucky. They were all so incredibly unhappy and it was incredibly obvious why and they were blind to it. They sucked. All of them. 

But, I persisted because it was a short book and I hated them all so much that I wasn't emotionally invested in the story. 

Anyway...

It gets worse as you go so I guess the first couple of chapters are okay enough to pull you in. Not nearly enough to redeem it though. 

I won't say what I disliked so much because #spoilers and all. 

They were just awful people. 

The Widow's Husband's Secret Lie

3-4 stars

This was meant to be satire, completely tongue-in-cheek, making fun of her own genre. A quick story and I definitely didn't LOL but I guffawed or groaned a few times. It was cute the way she put it together. I recommend if you like the thriller genre. It would make a good spoofy movie for sure.

Into the Drowning Deep

4-5 stars

I simultaneously did not like this book and absolutely loved it at the same time. With Sandwich, I hated it because the characters were awful. With this one, it was so out there that investing 17 hours of my life into the audio was a little embarrassing. There's nothing wrong with sci-fi, but this was like sci-fi meets Final Destination meets the true crime genre meets The Walking Dead. And, I swear, there is not one of you out there who would not spend an entire weekend on the couch watching an 8-part limited series if Netflix ever picked this up. I honestly don't understand why this isn't on TV yet. 

Anyway, mermaids attack a ship. I don't usually go for books that require a lot of visualization and imagination but this was one I could "see" and I liked that. 

Like Mother, Like Daughter is fine but I'm not that far into the audiobook yet. I'm excited to get farther into The God of the Woods because Long, Bright River was an amazing book. Both are library books though so I'd better pick up the pace...

However, this makes me wonder: Are you a normal person or do you read multiple books at a time like I do? I was actually reading all five of these at the same time at one point.

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