Dead to Her
Ratings10
Average rating3.1
100% pure unadulterated, and quite frankly marvellous, filth. Reading a Sarah Pinborough book is like going for a quiet pizza with your best friend on a Monday night, you end up getting completely sloshed, doing all the bars, meeting a group of Polish rugby players and jumping on a ferry to Belgium only to met by an army of evil cats which you fight off using toothpaste and a rusty spanner., just about making home in time for tea and crumpets and the latest episode of Bargain Hunt.
Solid 3/5 stars. Seriously though, idk why everyone is so upset about this book. It wasn't awful, but it wasn't great (especially coming off of Behind Her Eyes). The reason why this book scored lower than the original 3.5 that I wanted to give it was because honestly, it was just gross. The level of detail the scenes went into sexually or otherwise made me uncomfortable. Not because I am uncomfortable with addressing and talking about the act of sex/sexual preferences, etc. but because this just didn't seem like the right place to do it. There was also an element of Voodoo in this book that had some pretty graphic parts that honestly were gross as well. Between the excessive descriptive sex scenes and that, there were parts where I literally wanted to skip forward or actually felt queasy (and I have a very strong stomach). Anyways, overall the book combined classic psychological thriller with a who-dun-it, set in high modern society in the southern United States. There were many layers to this books and there was a lot going on in character development, plot details, etc. that I did not actually guess the ending. I wasn't wowed by my inability to guess the ending, but I still have to hand it to the author that I did not guess one of the main people to be involved. Looking back was it a cliche ending? I mean maybe, but not entirely. I thought it wrapped up pretty nicely. 3.5 stars - .5 stars as mentioned above to bring it to a nice 3 stars. Pretty easy read once you get past the middle.