Those books you keep seeing. Everything about them suggests they will be garbage but there they are and you know that one day you will buy a copy.

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The House At Rivington. I see it everywhere. Is it as crap as it looks?

Nobody read it then?

I read 2 pages, it is crap.

Hello. Do you mean Riverton? If so, I thought it was fluffy rubbish, but then I am quite picky.

I just knew it would be crap. But every time I see it, my fingers just itch to buy it. It must be the jacket.

I do mean Riverton yes. Secret. House. Garden. Family. Etc.

Got this from the library a week ago, struggled to the end of the first chapter and took it back (thank god I didn't pay good money for it!). I found I just didn't care about the characters and the prospect of reading about them for hundreds of pages was depressing!

I'm afraid it is. Starts off promising but then goes on and on and you don't care about any of the characters in the end.

House at Riverton is absolute shit, full of characters and storylines borrowed from other books (and TV programmes fgs!) Having said that we read it for book club and several people really enjoyed it - until I pointed out to them how and why it was crap

I ahven't read it, but got the author's second book, Forgotten Garden or something like that. its a load of rubbish, am only on the third chapter and ahve given up

Agree Daisy. It was like a computer had written it as an experiment

DP bought it for me while I was realy sick with hyperemesis, and have never been able to tell him that I couldn't bring myself to read beyond the first few pages and I only read those few pages because he bought it, I felt bad that I looked at the back and thought 'tripe'

Haven't read it, but it's often been recommended to me by a friend with very unreliable taste in books.

I was like that with The Librarian - kept seeing it and seeing and seeing it, and then gave in.