What Lies Between Us

Can't wait to delicately shred this to pieces at my company book club on Tuesday! This became a hate-read with a skim-finish about 3/4 of the way through, but it was terrible the whole time. It's melodramatic, very dark, and sensual in strange and unsettling ways. The plot twist didn't make any sense and turns happened way too quickly. None of the characters are at all likable. It reads distant and nightmarish for a book that isn't a thriller (at least, I don't think it is?). In the end, this is a story that spends a lot of time complaining about the plight of women in patriarchal societies while playing into every dumb trope of female hysteria. Just awful.

The publisher provided me with the opportunity to read this in exchange for providing feedback. (via NetGalley)

2.5 stars.The author writes well but I had a hard time with the first half of this book. I couldn't really get into it. It picked up for me in the second half but this story just didn't do it for me.