SYNOPSIS
Have you ever been wrong about someone? Juno was wrong about Winnie Crouch. Before moving in with the Crouch family, Juno thought Winnie and her husband, Nigel, had the perfect marriage, the perfect son—the perfect life. Only now that she’s living in their beautiful house, she sees the cracks in the crumbling facade are too deep to ignore. Still, she isn’t one to judge. After her grim diagnosis, the retired therapist simply wants a place to live out the rest of her days in peace. But that peace is shattered the day Juno overhears a chilling conversation between Winnie and Nigel… She shouldn’t get involved. She really shouldn’t. But this could be her chance to make a few things right. Because if you thought Juno didn’t have a secret of her own, then you were wrong about her, too.
Title: The wrong family
Author: Tarryn Fisher
Publisher: Graydon House
Publication date: December 29, 2020
REVIEW
RATING: ⭐⭐
Do you know those books that go on and on, and they have gone for so long you think you must be reaching the end but then you check your progress and you're only halfway through? The wrong family was that kind of book for me. OMG! It took me foreeeeever! And the moment I finished it I wondered "why did you suffer through this?"
The plot was, in one word, RIDICULOUS. It was all over the place, nothing exciting happened for the most part, every single character was unlikeable (and not "good" unlikeable), and there was way too much inner boring monologue. The story became monotonous quite soon.
When Juno's "living arrangement" is finally revealed you just have to laugh, so absurd it is. Seriously, who can believe that? All these hints at the character's past and secrets for them to be revealed quite silly ones. Winnie's secret could have been easily explained to the police at the time and Juno's...anyway.
I didn't connect with the story and I didn't connect with the characters so, when all that craziness came out of nowhere at the end I was just so bored I couldn't care less about it and just wanted for it to be over. Clearly this book was not the best fit for me.
On the good side the audiobook narration was not bad.
Some of my bookish friends were waiting to see my thoughts about it before they decided to read it because of the mixed reviews. My advice for them is...RUN!
This is how I've felt about every single Tarryn Fisher novel I've ever read. I finally gave up on her. I'll sometimes read a book due to FOMO, but honestly, I think most of her books start well, then fall into the precipice of the absurd.
ReplyDeleteSorry this was a loser for you!
It was my first one. I don’t know if I’ll read any other yet.
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