DNF’d at 50%

Honestly, I thought about putting this one down earlier but I wanted to give it a bit more of a chance. I think this is a case of a book just not being for me. 

At the beginning of the book, I was struck by how similar the format is to Daisy Jones and the Six, and how similar the premise is to The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. I was really hoping for a unique story from there. However, I never felt like I connected with any of the characters, which was disappointing. I think this is all due to the format, which gives you very little insight into the characters besides what they say. To do this format well, your dialogue needs to be excellent. But there was not enough to distinguish between all the characters. The format also made it hard to keep track of the secondary characters. Many of these secondary characters felt like caricatures rather than real people.  

I appreciate what the author was trying to do here, but once I got to the “main event” that everyone was leading up to for the first half of the book, I honestly wasn’t invested and did not care what was going to happen in the second half.