Good irritation or bad irritation (if you know what I mean?😅).
Since I've been reading an awful lot recently I might as well make this thread my personal public reading diary.
As I was on holiday the past 10 days I finished 2 books and am halfway through a third.
Burial of Ghosts by Ann Cleeves. It's narrated in the first person and despite the book being written in the early noughties, we have a classic example of the MMW - messy millennial woman (I didn't invented this, the term is well known on the net). Young woman with a troubled past finds herself embroiled in some complicated situation like so many we have seen since, ie, The Girl on the Train and others. I did enjoy the book but I thought some descriptions were overly long. Also, while the ending of I See You by Claire Macintosh dragged a bit (and it was a bit ridiculous), the ending of this one was a very quick affair. The protagonist's worked out who the killer was at a normal pace but right after we had, "And the police arrested the killer, the end", and I felt a bit short changed because we kind of see the police working with the protagonist side by side throughout the book. Still, not a bad book, I enjoyed it somehow.
None Of This Is True by Lisa Jewel. Bought it just before my flight last week. Well, what can I say? She did it again. I finished it in two days, I loved it. I swear I'm going to create a LJ Fan Club, lol! What I like about her books is the believability factor. Obviously it would be extremely hard for things like that to happen in real life but they can happen, like in Our House for example. Can it happen? Yes. Is it likely to happen? Tiny chance but not impossible. I keep thinking that that BBC series, The Sixth Commandment, could have been written by LJ because it was a situation so absurd (and sad) that if you told me it was true I probably wouldn't have believed you. Never mind the comma splicing and all (look further up the thread to see the reference).
I'm nearly halfway through The Woman Who Lied and enjoying it so far. Will be back to report