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The New Neighbor by Karen Cleveland
Did not finish book. Stopped at 18%.
Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.
Sadly The New Neighbor did not work for me. I could tell by just reading the first few pages on the digital copy that this writing style may not be up my alley so I decided to wait for the audiobook from my library. The audiobook has not increased my enjoyment one bit.
Somehow this seems both overwritten and lacking detail as the same details have been repeated in just the first few chapters. Also, this unreliable narrator is already grinding my gears. Perhaps women going through a midlife crisis (divorce, last kid off to college, job change, house selling) while being obsessed with a case and the new owners of her house is not for me as I just kept wanting to say, 'get over yourself'.
Even the small amount of CIA aspects introduced within the first few chapters are not enough to keep me going.
I hope this works for you, but it didn't work for me.
Sadly The New Neighbor did not work for me. I could tell by just reading the first few pages on the digital copy that this writing style may not be up my alley so I decided to wait for the audiobook from my library. The audiobook has not increased my enjoyment one bit.
Somehow this seems both overwritten and lacking detail as the same details have been repeated in just the first few chapters. Also, this unreliable narrator is already grinding my gears. Perhaps women going through a midlife crisis (divorce, last kid off to college, job change, house selling) while being obsessed with a case and the new owners of her house is not for me as I just kept wanting to say, 'get over yourself'.
Even the small amount of CIA aspects introduced within the first few chapters are not enough to keep me going.
I hope this works for you, but it didn't work for me.