okay lol i know it’s a thriller with an unlikable/prob unreliable narrator but i kind of hated every second of this and i think i need to love myself and move on. sorry to the ppl who rec’d it to me

no hate to this book at all, but i was reading it for a reading challenge and discovered this doesn’t actually qualify, and that’s the only reason it was on my tbr. maybe i’ll pick it up again someday, but right now i’m prioritizing other books

all the love to this author (as i’m still interested in a few of their other titles), i just don’t think this book is for me. i don’t think it was what i wanted/expected and that i’m not the right reader for it, and that’s okay.

i waited several weeks for the audio from my library and have even owned a copy for years, but i can tell just from the first bit that this actually probably won’t be my vibe. so onto the next on the library hold list and into the unhaul pile it goes to someone who will love it where i can’t!

was part of my “these books must self destruct” and now i get to unhaul it. i know it’s a classic but the first few stories did nothing to capture my attention, and then there was some casual racism and misogyny that i just wasn’t in the mood to push through

my goal this year is to DNF more things if i’m simply not feeling it, and i fear i was not feeling it. just not my bag

idk i was just…. bored? i didn’t care about getting to know these characters, the main character, while sympathetic to me bc i’ve been thru similar struggles, was just irritating. and a lot of the prose and dialogue was not it for me.

i need to start over and give it up lol it’s been two years since you touched this book dumbass

i went and read a couple reviews to see if any would convince me to keep reading bc it already wasn’t really holding my interest. my dislike of the audiobook narration paired with the characters being both kind of… irritating to me, just meant that this one’s not for me and that’s ok! i mean i probably could have kept listening and not had the worst time, but there’s more books that are higher priorities for me, so i’d rather just get this off my tbr

i think i need to accept that i’m not gonna come back to this one bc i never found myself wanting to reach for it… which like is a me problem bc i know i would enjoy it. however i will add the audiobook to my tbr and see what happens