Lori
This is a hard book to rate as I like the overall story but there are some glaring issues.
I have seen the movies before reading this book so I thought that it would be just as scary but this book is more of a mystery The main character mainly investigates the tape and the history of the woman behind it. The slow unraveling of each mystery are the best parts of the book. Although an issue I run into is that his friend who may or may not be a rapist just happens to have all the right insights to further the investigation. Each point where I stop and think where do we go from here the friend jumps in with an answer. As the book nears the end the is a few jumps in reasoning that we just have to accept.
Another point in the book that bothers me is that the main character isn’t that great of a guy. He’s not that good to his wife and child. Leaving them behind for his career, ignoring them when he’s home. The worst is that he believes his friend is a rapist and is still friends with him. This point is repeatedly brought up to the point that it seems he revels in the fact that he’s friends with him mostly because he was a rapist. Absolutely hated this.
There is also a plot point about a character being female with some male parts and I didn’t like the way this was handled. The book spends too much time trying to determine if this character is a she and if they are beautiful or not. Later the character is raped but it is just glossed over.
The book was hard to put down as I wanted to know more about the woman but there are some issues that aren’t handled well and really take you out of the book. This was also not scary.
This is a hard book to rate as I like the overall story but there are some glaring issues.
I have seen the movies before reading this book so I thought that it would be just as scary but this book is more of a mystery The main character mainly investigates the tape and the history of the woman behind it. The slow unraveling of each mystery are the best parts of the book. Although an issue I run into is that his friend who may or may not be a rapist just happens to have all the right insights to further the investigation. Each point where I stop and think where do we go from here the friend jumps in with an answer. As the book nears the end the is a few jumps in reasoning that we just have to accept.
Another point in the book that bothers me is that the main character isn’t that great of a guy. He’s not that good to his wife and child. Leaving them behind for his career, ignoring them when he’s home. The worst is that he believes his friend is a rapist and is still friends with him. This point is repeatedly brought up to the point that it seems he revels in the fact that he’s friends with him mostly because he was a rapist. Absolutely hated this.
There is also a plot point about a character being female with some male parts and I didn’t like the way this was handled. The book spends too much time trying to determine if this character is a she and if they are beautiful or not. Later the character is raped but it is just glossed over.
The book was hard to put down as I wanted to know more about the woman but there are some issues that aren’t handled well and really take you out of the book. This was also not scary.