lindsey
Written on Jan 22, 2020
It was a struggle to finish, I'm not going to lie. It started out okay - I was interested, at least - but it quickly went downhill, and it was all I could do to keep listening. I am truly baffled by the number of glowing reviews on Goodreads because I found nothing redeemable about it at all. I know everyone has different tastes, but I truly didn't enjoy this one.
Maybe I missed something pivotal, and I'm sure there are plenty of people who will be only too happy to tell me I missed the point, but I just didn't like anything about this one. I didn't like the characters, the plot, the pacing, or the dialogue.
I wouldn't have reviewed this one at all if not for my goal to review every book I read in 2020 because I typically don't review books I dislike. I deleted my first, more scathing, review for this, in an effort to write a review that didn't include thirty exclamation points and multiple all-caps sentences.
Story aside, Tom Hiddleston's narration was the only high point for me. He's an excellent narrator with a soothing voice, which was good because I needed to be calmed down while listening to this book.