The Helper

TL;DR

I did not enjoy this book, bland characters, boring story and a rushed ending.

My Scoring System

I have five things I look for in a book, if the book checks all five it's a 5/5 stars book, if it checks none it's a 1/5 stars and everything else is a combination:

X - Main Story: Started really slow and boring, got interesting once the main thing happens and then it got rushed towards the ending.

X - Side Stories (if it applies): Not interesting at all, the stories of her daughter and her boyfriend were really boring and I found myself skipping through most of those chapters.

X - Characters: The only character I liked is the detective Rose, all the rest I did not find interesting at all.

X - Setting/Ambiance: Nothing out of the ordinary, just your average city.

✓ - Ending: I felt the ending was really rushed, it did finish the story and plot points. It didn't end in a cliffhanger at least. But I think it should have taken a bit more time to end.

Extensive Review

I don't like how this book is written, every chapter ends so abruptly that it's jarring. I would say that the first half of the book is the most boring part of it because you just read about this woman's life. How she is struggling and her problems. I don't care and it's not interesting at all.

Then the main thing happens and the story starts to go somewhere, we get introduced to the detective and we switched point of views from her and Eric, which were far more interesting (except the constant movie scenes references he makes in all of his interactions, they were annoying). I found myself reading skimming though the chapters with out main character because I did not enjoy them.

And when you get to see how this thing plays out and start to wonder what's going to happen you see that there are 30 pages left. The ending needed more time in my opinion.

I didn't enjoy this book and I wouldn't recommend it for people who are looking for a thriller as it's marketed.