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Originally Posted by Catlady
I loved Liv Constantine's first book, The Last Mrs. Parrish, so I had high hopes for the second one, The Last Time I Saw You, narrated by Julia Whelan. What a disappointment.
Mrs. Parrish was elegant, well-crafted, twisty fun, but The Last Time I Saw You is a run-of-the-mill, pedestrian, Lifetime movie-type book. It's competent and entertaining enough, but it's not top-tier suspense. The usual tropes of the genre are all trotted out, without any of the cleverness that elevated the first book.
The characters are all mostly unlikable as well, and I spotted the villain of the piece early on.
Oh well. Maybe the next person on the long library waiting list will be more impressed than I was.
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Thanks for the info, Catlady! I really enjoyed
The Last Mrs. Parrish too. I'm sorry to hear the next book was a disappointment. I just finished listening to
Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight. I liked the teenage secret club and bullying themes but wasn't fully satisfied with the ending.
I'm currently whispersyncing the audio and ebooks of
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins for the Literary Club. The multi-cast Blackstone version is a very enjoyable listen. It won an Audie Award for Best Classic Narration.
My library hold just became available today for
Normal People by Sally Rooney, a 2019 Costa Book Award winner. I'm looking forward to this book as my next listen.