The Anniversary

2.5 stars Very disappointed in this book. I read two reviews which described it as dynamic and exciting. For me it was neither. The first part which describes the actual incident is pretty good and the end which describes a part of the trial is okay too but the middle section (most of the book) is ju......more

I can see what Stephanie Bishop is trying to do with this book, but I found the central character and narrator (J.B. or Lucie) extremely unlikeable, and the long descriptive accounts extremely boring. In some ways it reads like a nightmare since so much of it is the character’s thoughts as the event......more

TOO MUCH DEBRIS Character is too mental for me to read this. Detective asks her about the last time she saw her husband and she goes into pages of description of their sexual activities. I like there to be a story in my books but this one seemed stalled by the character herself. It was like a train t......more

This book is billed as a psychological thriller, but the emphasis is far more on the psychology, unless you consider waiting to find out what actually happened at the moment of crisis as thrilling. And the author really does make you wait for it, as this is a first-person narrative recounted by a mo......more

I went into this with the wrong impression, expecting dramatic reveals and scandalous secrets of the tragically deceased husband. While there is some of that, this was a psychological portrait of a woman unraveling. I was mad at this book. Mad at the slow pace, the meandering, the going on and on in......more