The Ex

by Alafair Burke

[Leah]

This was an interesting read. I kind of wanted more pace - more action, more thrills, just MORE. It lacked something, and it proves that once again, trying to bill a book as the "next Gone Girl" is just tying a noose round the neck of a book like this. This is nothing LIKE Gone Girl. Not in the slightest. Not in tone, not in writing, not in plot and it's getting to be a really old thing for publishers to wheel out for every single thriller published.

I never cared for any of the characters. I tried so hard to like Olivia, but she was too cold. Too unemotional. Jack I couldn't have cared less for. The daughter was the only one who actually jumped out at me, and I can't even remember her name and I only finished reading half an hour or so ago.

The ending would have been a surprise, if it hadn't taken so long to get there that I guessed it.