I found this a bit cold and detached and didn't really gel with the writing. 

 This was just fine, just not really interesting me or making me want to go back to it. Read about 50% and gave up 

I don't think this is a bad book, I just found the writing to be not to my taste. It's quite heavy-handed and obvious, and really lays out what is happening for the reader, which is just not what I'm looking for in my reading right now. 

This is frequently recommended for fans of The Secret History, but I think this is a totally inaccurate comparison. It is a campus novel, but it's much more along the lines of a standard contemporary/mystery than TSH. The writing is quite obvious and lacks the beauty and subtlety of Donna Tartt's prose. I think anyone who has been led to this book in this way will be disappointed. 

I read about half of it but found it just didn't really hold my attention. 

I read about 50 pages of this, I found the descriptions altogether too much for my taste. Extremely detailed descriptions of bodily functions and semen I can live without 

I might come back to this at a later time, but for now I'm find the writing just too boring and obvious for me. I know a lot of people enjoy this book but I need something a bit more to keep my attention at this time 

 This was just really boring and I didn't feel like it was going anywhere. I think I read about 150 pages and gave up. 

Nothing egregiously wrong with this, just not at this time ty

I am nearly halfway through and finding the story quite flat. The characters aren't particularly engaging and feel a bit unoriginal to me. There are bits and pieces of really beautiful writing in this though, so I will still give The Vanishing Half a go at some point in the future. 

I read about a third of this, it's a series of different perspectives, all on one day in Scotland. It felt pretty similar to other books I have read recently and didn't grab my attention in any special way. The writing is certainly evocative, but the overall atmosphere was kind of dreary in a way I found repellant rather rather than appealing.