Spare Room

HUGE CW FOR SUICIDE as soon as the book starts. And CW for mistreating and gaslighting of someone with mental health difficulties throughout the book.

Aside from being predictable there were various parts of this book that irritated me.

The main character has some very stuck-up, prudish opinions that really added absolutely nothing to the story. She makes some comment about how tattoos are wrong and people who get them are not only idiots but apparently morally bad. WTF. She assumes the male landlord is a bad guy because he has tattoos.

Later, she hears the couple fighting and someone getting punched. She assumes he hit her despite him having a black eye and her being unscathed. Honey, you went to private school and you can't put 2 & 2 together?

Speaking of private school. This seems up for debate as at one point the author says private school and at another says public school, which are different things. Which is it?

Somehow, despite it being totally illegal in the UK, MC goes out on her lunch break and casually buys some pepper-spray.

The only reason I finished the book was to see what the reason she was so obsessed with this house in this otherwise totally shitty situation was.

And what kind of person in the 21st Century says “pauper suicide”? I mean, really?

Unlikeable characters throughout, huge plot holes, no real explanation/ending to one of the plot lines, and someone murders a cat. So. Overall, not worth the effort imho.