Welcome to Litsy!

It has a lot of positive reviews, but sadly, it‘s not for me.

If you‘re interested as to why, I explain why better in my GR review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4500324885

#hailthebail #offtheshelf

2/5⭐ The description is beautiful, but there's no hook and it's slow. Not for me. #roll100

1.5/5⭐ I would have devoured this book as a teenager. It suffocates you in stereotypical gothic vibes. The man is a dangerous enigma, the woman is a young mystery, and the author reminds you of these things in every weakly written paragraph. I DNFed at the line “a part of her wanted to...blush furiously at the singular masculine attention from a very masculine male.“ 🤢 #doublespin

The story did not grab me - Jaime is bored with his life (it seems), insecure about his relationship with Clare. They meet younger couple Kit and Melia and this injects some life into Jaime (and Clare) - then it starts to unravel. Kit goes missing, and question becomes if Jaime did it - or was he set up? ⬇️

Someday I‘m going to choose a #NetGalley I actually like again. This is not that day. The writing isn‘t bad but I couldn‘t get engaged with these ultra rich characters who do reprehensible things in a weirdly casual and unremarkable way. Told in reverse chronology, this should have been interesting but instead turned out to be a pet peeve of mine: a bunch of short stories that threw on a trench coat to pretend to be a novel. #bookspin for May.

Bail at 47%.... I hate to bail, I do! 😔
I love the Phantom of the Opera musical. So I was excited to try the book. It just wasn't to my taste at all. I found it hard to follow, and I was finding it such a chore to read. This novel has made me really appreciate the absolute genius of Andrew Lloyd Webber.

I appreciate it's a much loved classic, but it's just not for me, unfortunately! I may re-listen to the soundtrack, so that counts, right?! 🤣

#Wardens2024 #ReadMyRoom #ReadAway2024 #BookSpinBingo #HailTheBail

Tried on two separate days to dive into this but, I just can‘t get into it🥱 Just the thought of picking it up to read is daunting. Just not for me I guess🤦🏻‍♀️ I‘ll leave it open on my kobo, in case I decide to try again but, I make no guarantees about finishing it🤷🏻‍♀️

I made it 85 pages in (48% of the way through), and I just couldn‘t make myself read any longer. I‘m apparently not the target audience for this book. It was so boring, and I didn‘t find the main character interesting at all. It was a slog, y‘all. Also, I thought her psychiatrist was irritating. I‘m glad to have this one off #MountTBR. #HailTheBail #DNF