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Good Half Gone
by Tarryn Fisher
dark
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
I want to start this review by saying I read an ARC of this book and I really really hope they fixed the errors in the ARC when they went to print because hot damn it was bad.
If you read my reviews you’ll know I’m pretty easy to please when it comes to books. Make it entertaining and easy to read and you’re almost guaranteed to get 3.5/4 stars from me. I give almost everything 4 stars on here. I can’t find a single thing to be optimistic about with this one … the only reason I didn’t give it 1 star is because I don’t believe in that. The author put the work in and it’s not their fault I found it bad.
The inconsistencies in this book were god awful. The premise is that 15 year old Piper went missing and her twin sister, Iris, is looking for her. At the start of the book we find out 8 years have passed and Iris is 23, it literally states this at the start of the book. Here’s where the story went from there:
1. Iris magically has a 9 year old son but he wasn’t born before Piper went missing.
2. Later on the same page where Iris said she’s been raising her son AND LOOKING FOR HER SISTER FOR 9 YEARS (even though it’s only been 8 years since her sister went missing) she makes a comment about her 8 year old son ……. Um I’m sorry but he’s been 9 the last 30 pages but now he’s 8? It makes more sense but not much.
3. But wait it gets better! About midway through the book we have a flashback to the past where Cal (the son) comes into Iris’s life…… it’s a year and a day after Piper went missing when they find Cal at their mothers house. His umbilical cord is still attached which means (as it says in the book) he’s probably less than a week old …… wait….. if he was born a year after Piper went missing that means he can only be 7….. but he’s already been 9 and then 8….. What. The. Actual. F*ck.
I cannot believe it got this far without anyone fixing all these glaringly obvious mistakes. And I really hope these mistakes were fixed before it went to print (I’m hoping to check the next time I work my part time job at the bookstore)
And don’t get me started on the writing. I had such a hard time following this book I thought I needed to be institutionalized. The writing was all over the place, things would randomly happen that made absolutely no sense whatsoever with the flow of the story and the ending was so ridiculous that it didn’t make the story better.
This was my first ever Tarryn Fisher book and it was a very discouraging start. I have read other reviews that have said this is nothing like the other books she writes but good lord I don’t know if I want to take the risk of reading another one after this. I’ve never been more disappointed after hearing so many good things about an author.
If you read my reviews you’ll know I’m pretty easy to please when it comes to books. Make it entertaining and easy to read and you’re almost guaranteed to get 3.5/4 stars from me. I give almost everything 4 stars on here. I can’t find a single thing to be optimistic about with this one … the only reason I didn’t give it 1 star is because I don’t believe in that. The author put the work in and it’s not their fault I found it bad.
The inconsistencies in this book were god awful. The premise is that 15 year old Piper went missing and her twin sister, Iris, is looking for her. At the start of the book we find out 8 years have passed and Iris is 23, it literally states this at the start of the book. Here’s where the story went from there:
1. Iris magically has a 9 year old son but he wasn’t born before Piper went missing.
2. Later on the same page where Iris said she’s been raising her son AND LOOKING FOR HER SISTER FOR 9 YEARS (even though it’s only been 8 years since her sister went missing) she makes a comment about her 8 year old son ……. Um I’m sorry but he’s been 9 the last 30 pages but now he’s 8? It makes more sense but not much.
3. But wait it gets better! About midway through the book we have a flashback to the past where Cal (the son) comes into Iris’s life…… it’s a year and a day after Piper went missing when they find Cal at their mothers house. His umbilical cord is still attached which means (as it says in the book) he’s probably less than a week old …… wait….. if he was born a year after Piper went missing that means he can only be 7….. but he’s already been 9 and then 8….. What. The. Actual. F*ck.
I cannot believe it got this far without anyone fixing all these glaringly obvious mistakes. And I really hope these mistakes were fixed before it went to print (I’m hoping to check the next time I work my part time job at the bookstore)
And don’t get me started on the writing. I had such a hard time following this book I thought I needed to be institutionalized. The writing was all over the place, things would randomly happen that made absolutely no sense whatsoever with the flow of the story and the ending was so ridiculous that it didn’t make the story better.
This was my first ever Tarryn Fisher book and it was a very discouraging start. I have read other reviews that have said this is nothing like the other books she writes but good lord I don’t know if I want to take the risk of reading another one after this. I’ve never been more disappointed after hearing so many good things about an author.