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All Good People Here
by Ashley Flowers
So the synopsis sounded fantastic. The anticipation and excitement to read it were probably the best part of this experience for me.
It wasn't so much that this book was bad than it was that this book wasn't anything. I read this in less than 24 hours and in that time I literally forgot I was reading it. It did absolutely nothing for me. I've definitely read thrillers I've disliked more, but this was so void of anything positive that I couldn't justify giving it three stars.
The strange thing is, I can't sit here and list a bunch of things I hated about this book. The dual timeline was fine. The characters were okay. The various plot twists were a little underwhelming but passable. The actual investigation part of the book is kind of dry. The connections Margot makes between different cases is a bit of a stretch. Like nothing good, but none of those things were particularly bad either.
The ending kind of sucked, depending on how you like your thriller endings. I can enjoy an ending that lacks closure, but this one gave me the vibe that Flowers just didn't know how to end it. It kind of just stopped abruptly and then gave us a whole lot of unnecessary details on a separate plot point. Like maybe I would have been more annoyed by the ending if I was invested in Margot at all, but I wasn't. Just didn't care what happened to her.
It's very much inspired by JonBenet Ramsey's murder and perhaps that made me feel a bit more negatively toward this book on a whole. (It's clearly not meant to be a complete rehashing of the case, but there are too many similarities to ignore.) I don't usually enjoy when thrillers are based on real people's suffering. It feels exploitative and takes away some of my enjoyment. And also with this specific case, it's received so much press for so many years that I don't want to read another rehash of it. I'm already familiar. I'd rather read something different.
I wouldn't dissuade anyone from reading this if you were really interested, but I'm gonna completely forget this book in a week. It was just so nothing.
It wasn't so much that this book was bad than it was that this book wasn't anything. I read this in less than 24 hours and in that time I literally forgot I was reading it. It did absolutely nothing for me. I've definitely read thrillers I've disliked more, but this was so void of anything positive that I couldn't justify giving it three stars.
The strange thing is, I can't sit here and list a bunch of things I hated about this book. The dual timeline was fine. The characters were okay. The various plot twists were a little underwhelming but passable. The actual investigation part of the book is kind of dry. The connections Margot makes between different cases is a bit of a stretch. Like nothing good, but none of those things were particularly bad either.
The ending kind of sucked, depending on how you like your thriller endings. I can enjoy an ending that lacks closure, but this one gave me the vibe that Flowers just didn't know how to end it. It kind of just stopped abruptly and then gave us a whole lot of unnecessary details on a separate plot point. Like maybe I would have been more annoyed by the ending if I was invested in Margot at all, but I wasn't. Just didn't care what happened to her.
It's very much inspired by JonBenet Ramsey's murder and perhaps that made me feel a bit more negatively toward this book on a whole. (It's clearly not meant to be a complete rehashing of the case, but there are too many similarities to ignore.) I don't usually enjoy when thrillers are based on real people's suffering. It feels exploitative and takes away some of my enjoyment. And also with this specific case, it's received so much press for so many years that I don't want to read another rehash of it. I'm already familiar. I'd rather read something different.
I wouldn't dissuade anyone from reading this if you were really interested, but I'm gonna completely forget this book in a week. It was just so nothing.