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A review by kraysbookclub
The Rumor by Lesley Kara
3.0
🌹Book Review ⭐️⭐️.7931 🌹
🌹When #rumorgate exploded on bookstagram with @scaredstraightreads and @beautyandthebooks at the crux of this mayhem...I KNEW I needed to join in on this madness and find out if I landed on Team Dennis (hated it) or Team Jamie (loved it). Well here’s the deal- you know when you’re reading a book and you keep thinking “This is all eerily familiar. I definitely read this before.” Well that’s what I felt the ENTIRE time I read The Rumor. This was 5 mediocre housewife thrillers rolled into one and then watered and dumbed down aggressively. I could barely keep track of the characters because they were all the same damn humans! Oh look there’s Jessica, Jassica, Gessica and Shessica heading off to book club. 🙄
🌹Jo and her son Alfie moved away from the big city to live closer to her mother in a quaint beach town. Jo is a part time real estate agent, but spends most of her time concerned about her son, his experience with bullying and being ostracized by his peers (*cough cough Big Little Lies?). In order to get her son into the cool kids club, Jo takes part in a gossip session about a notorious child killer that is rumored to have moved to her small town. Jo slowly becomes obsessed and spends much of her time researching and reporting on this infamous killer. Suspicions escalate quickly and fingers are pointed. No one knows who should be trusted and Jo’s safety is soon at risk when she becomes the one that is threatened...risking not only her life but the life of her son.
🌹Ohhhhhh a murderous gossip circle. Puhlease. If this was even remotely plausible, we’d all be murdered because that’s what the entire human race is best at...gossiping. Good lord. But the over-arching storyline just screamed “Big Little Lies: the lame life”. It was just soooo generic, there was no backstory to many of the side stories and the “red herrings” were the equivalent of tricking a dog out by fake throwing a stick when playing fetch. It was so contrived and typical of the current “thriller shenanigans” that have been flooding readers as of late. No. Thank. You.
🌹When #rumorgate exploded on bookstagram with @scaredstraightreads and @beautyandthebooks at the crux of this mayhem...I KNEW I needed to join in on this madness and find out if I landed on Team Dennis (hated it) or Team Jamie (loved it). Well here’s the deal- you know when you’re reading a book and you keep thinking “This is all eerily familiar. I definitely read this before.” Well that’s what I felt the ENTIRE time I read The Rumor. This was 5 mediocre housewife thrillers rolled into one and then watered and dumbed down aggressively. I could barely keep track of the characters because they were all the same damn humans! Oh look there’s Jessica, Jassica, Gessica and Shessica heading off to book club. 🙄
🌹Jo and her son Alfie moved away from the big city to live closer to her mother in a quaint beach town. Jo is a part time real estate agent, but spends most of her time concerned about her son, his experience with bullying and being ostracized by his peers (*cough cough Big Little Lies?). In order to get her son into the cool kids club, Jo takes part in a gossip session about a notorious child killer that is rumored to have moved to her small town. Jo slowly becomes obsessed and spends much of her time researching and reporting on this infamous killer. Suspicions escalate quickly and fingers are pointed. No one knows who should be trusted and Jo’s safety is soon at risk when she becomes the one that is threatened...risking not only her life but the life of her son.
🌹Ohhhhhh a murderous gossip circle. Puhlease. If this was even remotely plausible, we’d all be murdered because that’s what the entire human race is best at...gossiping. Good lord. But the over-arching storyline just screamed “Big Little Lies: the lame life”. It was just soooo generic, there was no backstory to many of the side stories and the “red herrings” were the equivalent of tricking a dog out by fake throwing a stick when playing fetch. It was so contrived and typical of the current “thriller shenanigans” that have been flooding readers as of late. No. Thank. You.