Goodnight Nobody

A murder mystery. Quite a departure from her usual fare and it shows. There's still the complicated mother/daughter relationship, feelings of inadequacies, the slightly overweight female character, the good looking and fearless best friend...but there was something missing. The like-ability of the main character maybe? Even now, having just finished the book 5 minutes ago I couldn't remember the name of the main character!

Kate. She wasn't believable, she wasn't fully fleshed out. She lost her mind over this man she never had a relationship with and married the first man who came along after. Then she complains about being dissatisfied. She goes off half cocked every time she gets just a tiny idea of something and it's wrong. Every. Time.

But what more than that, I never felt like she loved her kids or her husband. Or even Evan, the one that got away. She just wanted to do whatever she wanted to do and damn all to everyone else.

Alone, it's not a horrible book, but compared to In Her Shoes or Good in Bed this was entirely lackluster.