I actually agree with so much of this review! The book was well-written enough, and a couple of plot lines were more interesting than others, but all the stuff people gushed about left me cold.
On a separate note, I felt the same way you did for the longest time about ereads, but as I’ve mentioned before, they can be great for library books (which are now about 70% of my annual reading material). I have a very small handful of books I bought on my Kindle Paperwhite years ago but I use it so much for library ebooks, it’s paid for itself and then some (it is the one Amazon thing I don’t mind owning). Alternate option - if you have a tablet or good size phone - is to get the kindle app on that (which is what I first used) and/or use the Libby or Overdrive app for various books. While those screens are still more like computer screens, it’s a more reader-friendly way of consuming ebooks!
Ooh I have yet to read this but yours is the first review I’ve seen that isn’t a rave! Which I think is helpful - I feel like I’m almost always let down when I finally read whatever book EVERYONE else is obsessed with. Also, completely feel you on the digital book think. I’ve also been trying to read more ARCs, most as ebooks, and I just can’t sink into them the way I do a physical book.
Great review! I did not love this book either, I just liked it. I did not understand all the hype. The premise was weird. Who lets their husband’s mistress move in with them? I saw the author at an event and she was good to listen to. Ultimately, I felt like this book was not for me.
I have had a Kindle for years and now I use it more for borrowing new from the library and for book club books I am not really interested in.
Agree 100%. Mostly scouring second hand bookshops for my reading material and thus avoiding most over-hype, I should have smelt a rat when I discovered this in pristine hardback for three quid at Oxfam. I didn't hate it but those stream of consciousness paragraphs bored me. And surely Eric was the blandest love interest in many a book. I put a lot down to me being a 65 year old Brit, but I have never reached for Google so much in a novel (typing fingers in overdrive in the Comicon section).
I think maybe I was too old for this book?
I will Kindle at a pinch but reading from a screen feels like work and is not a tactile experience. However, I did wish I'd Kindled Luster, as I could have saved all my looked-up words for posterity. I have passed the book on to my 24 year old.
It’s so interesting to hear another perspective on a “hot” book. Thanks BoG for giving us your unique insights! Happy New Year!
I actually agree with so much of this review! The book was well-written enough, and a couple of plot lines were more interesting than others, but all the stuff people gushed about left me cold.
On a separate note, I felt the same way you did for the longest time about ereads, but as I’ve mentioned before, they can be great for library books (which are now about 70% of my annual reading material). I have a very small handful of books I bought on my Kindle Paperwhite years ago but I use it so much for library ebooks, it’s paid for itself and then some (it is the one Amazon thing I don’t mind owning). Alternate option - if you have a tablet or good size phone - is to get the kindle app on that (which is what I first used) and/or use the Libby or Overdrive app for various books. While those screens are still more like computer screens, it’s a more reader-friendly way of consuming ebooks!
Ooh I have yet to read this but yours is the first review I’ve seen that isn’t a rave! Which I think is helpful - I feel like I’m almost always let down when I finally read whatever book EVERYONE else is obsessed with. Also, completely feel you on the digital book think. I’ve also been trying to read more ARCs, most as ebooks, and I just can’t sink into them the way I do a physical book.
Great review! I did not love this book either, I just liked it. I did not understand all the hype. The premise was weird. Who lets their husband’s mistress move in with them? I saw the author at an event and she was good to listen to. Ultimately, I felt like this book was not for me.
I have had a Kindle for years and now I use it more for borrowing new from the library and for book club books I am not really interested in.
Agree 100%. Mostly scouring second hand bookshops for my reading material and thus avoiding most over-hype, I should have smelt a rat when I discovered this in pristine hardback for three quid at Oxfam. I didn't hate it but those stream of consciousness paragraphs bored me. And surely Eric was the blandest love interest in many a book. I put a lot down to me being a 65 year old Brit, but I have never reached for Google so much in a novel (typing fingers in overdrive in the Comicon section).
I think maybe I was too old for this book?
I will Kindle at a pinch but reading from a screen feels like work and is not a tactile experience. However, I did wish I'd Kindled Luster, as I could have saved all my looked-up words for posterity. I have passed the book on to my 24 year old.