My pick for this week’s Flashback Friday:įlannery Culp is 19, precocious, pretentious and incarcerated. Other than that, the sky’s the limit! Join me, please, and let us all know: what are the books you’ve read that you always rave about? What books from your past do you wish EVERYONE would read? Pick something from five years ago, or go all the way back to the Canterbury Tales if you want. Must have been originally published 5 or more years ago.Has to still be available, preferably still in print.Has to be something I’ve (you’ve) read myself (yourself) - oh, you know what I mean!.As a reader, a blogger, and a consumer, I tend to focus on new, new, new… but what about the old favorites, the hidden gems? On Flashback Fridays, I want to hit the pause button for a moment and concentrate on older books that are deserving of attention. Anyway, it’s truly incredible how all the elements for one of my new favourite books could be there, and the book still fail me so spectacularly.It’s time, once again, for Flashback Friday…įlashback Friday is a chance to dig deep in the darkest nooks of our bookshelves and pull out the good stuff from way back. And I am normally terrible at guessing plot twists. And the narrator was all smug, like “You didn’t see this coming, huh?” Except I 100% did. The only reason I didn’t DNF this book is that I started expecting a certain twist halfway through this book and wanted to see it confirmed. Like, the evening of the murder is sooo drawn out and seemed to go on forever? And I just kept myself thinking “Get to the damn murder already! I’ve waited long enough.” Other parts of the plot either a) bored me (school scenes, dialogues that seemed to have no point), or b) weirded me out (there was a whole subplot with an abusive teacher that just made me soo uncomfortable! I suppose that might be to the book’s credit, but yeah, it just wasn’t enjoyable at all).

But the story drags on and on to the point where it’s almost hilarious. Quite early on, we learn that Flan supposedly committed this murder and throughout most of the book, you’re just waiting for this one event to happen. And I live for dark academia! So what could go wrong, right? Well, as it turns out, everything.

Let me just start off by saying that this book was THE BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT OF 2019 SO FAR!! The plot had ALL the makings of my favourite genre in the world, and yet still somehow managed to be awful?! We have our pretentious group of friends and we have a murder.

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