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Offline GloryAndCrumpets

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Re: DON'T READ THAT!!!
« on: May 23, 2018, 06:01:00 pm »
Broken Harbor, Tana French.  I loved all her other books, but this one made me blind with rage.  So much set up for no payoff.  None.  One huge plot line literally goes nowhere.  I still get angry talking about it. 

Co-worker and I use it as a measure of how bad a book is...is it as bad as or worse than broken harbor?

I enjoyed Broken Harbor overall. For me, it was In The Woods. It started off SO GOOD and I was completely into it and totally ignoring kids and housework and everything else because I just had to know what happened...AND THEN NOTHING HAPPENED! And she had such a great thing going with the Rob-Cassie relationship, and I was really loving the portrayal of a close male-female friendship that was genuinely platonic (because I feel like you so rarely see that kind of thing in media) and then she threw in that stupid "Oh, let's sleep together, wait, now things are awkward" thing and RUINED it, which I was so desperately hoping she wouldn't do. So yeah that, and the fact that it was a mystery novel that didn't solve the central mystery kind of pissed me off. That was the first Tana French book I read, and in retrospect, it's sort of amazing I read anything else by her after that.
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