Friday 11 August 2017

Best Day Ever book review

This is a hard book to review without giving away every plot twist. 

I can't say that I liked the book, but I did find it pretty compelling.  I was five pages in when I started exclaiming "I hate the narrator!".  I was about ten pages in when I figured out that was kind of the point. 

It felt like the author had a "I'm going to make the narrator SO BAD!" checklist going, and, to her credit, she hit all of them.  Honestly, I felt she could have dialed the evil back by about half and still had a good solid book.  After a while, I started saying "Oh, of COURSE he...." when a new revelation popped up. 

I was also very disappointed by the ending.  I felt that while possible realistic, it was not very healthy for her female protagonist.

This is not a reread book for me.  As I said, I found it compelling and well written, but oddly clunky in the amount of Bad Things happening left, right and centre.






(I received an ARC of this novel in return for my unbiased opinion)