A Stranger In The House
TITLE: A Stranger In The House
AUTHOR: Shari Lapena
PUBLISHER: Pamela Dorman Books, August 2017
PAGE: 305 pages
RATING: ***** (3/5)
You're home making dinner for your husband. You expect him any second. The phone rings - It's the call you hoped you'd never get. You jump in your car and race to a neighborhood you thought you'd never visit. You peer into the dark, deserted building, and brace yourself for the worst.
After that, you remember nothing.
They tell your husband you've been in a car accident. You lost control of your car as you sped through the roughest part of town.
The police suspect you were up to no good. But your husband refuses to believe it. He thought he knows you better than anyone else. Your best friend is not so sure. And even you don't know what to believe ...
I have a mix feeling about this book. Compared to the last novel I read, 'A Stranger in The House' is an easy, quick and fun reading. The start of the book has a strong plot that hooked me up right away. But halfway reading through the book, I found that the plot is becoming too predictable, and the writing style is too simple, hence, lack of depth that I have been expecting since the beginning.
This is one of those books that have only a few of characters. Unfortunately, I have NO love for any of the characters' personalities. Inconsistency, childish, and unrealistic. Tom is not the knight in the shining armor that I thought he would be; Karen keeps saying "I can't remember", which makes her character shady; and Brigid is annoyingly clingy best friend/ neighbor.
Overall, it just didn't work for me. But it is still a good read and entertaining especially if you are looking for one seating kind of reading.
AUTHOR: Shari Lapena
PUBLISHER: Pamela Dorman Books, August 2017
PAGE: 305 pages
RATING: ***** (3/5)
You're home making dinner for your husband. You expect him any second. The phone rings - It's the call you hoped you'd never get. You jump in your car and race to a neighborhood you thought you'd never visit. You peer into the dark, deserted building, and brace yourself for the worst.
After that, you remember nothing.
They tell your husband you've been in a car accident. You lost control of your car as you sped through the roughest part of town.
The police suspect you were up to no good. But your husband refuses to believe it. He thought he knows you better than anyone else. Your best friend is not so sure. And even you don't know what to believe ...
I have a mix feeling about this book. Compared to the last novel I read, 'A Stranger in The House' is an easy, quick and fun reading. The start of the book has a strong plot that hooked me up right away. But halfway reading through the book, I found that the plot is becoming too predictable, and the writing style is too simple, hence, lack of depth that I have been expecting since the beginning.
This is one of those books that have only a few of characters. Unfortunately, I have NO love for any of the characters' personalities. Inconsistency, childish, and unrealistic. Tom is not the knight in the shining armor that I thought he would be; Karen keeps saying "I can't remember", which makes her character shady; and Brigid is annoyingly clingy best friend/ neighbor.
Overall, it just didn't work for me. But it is still a good read and entertaining especially if you are looking for one seating kind of reading.
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