Plain Bad Heroines

I “read” this as an audiobook and thought the narration was very good.

I did enjoy - mostly but it is long. At 640 pages I have read longer books. But this felt long.

The book is told moving back and forth from the past to the present. I did enjoy the past storyline much more.

The present storyline did ever get to fruition for me. It seemed to be focused on celebrity and unnecessary backstory for those characters which ultimately never really cumulated to anything. The story in relation to filming the movie didn't get off the ground for me. So I wasn't sure what its purpose was. Perhaps I have missed something.

Gothic but not horror is, in my opinion, the better way to describe it. It's spooky in places but not scary.

For all its 600+ pages I was left wanting more of the past story and ‘the French connection' if you will permit me to use that term. Maybe that was the author's intention.

I did enjoy a lot of the book but not it all.

So 3/5 for me.

Scale:

1 = bad
2 = okay
3 = good
4 = great
5 = excellent

(Ratings 3 to 5 can be given even if the book is not perfect but there was an enhancing factor such as readability, enjoyment, or a certain spark).