Second Life

My mind is so blown right now. This book managed to stay 10 steps ahead of me while making it seem like I had figured out what was going on. This book was so good, so hard to keep up with and so hard to put down. I really thought I knew what was coming every step of the way, and I really didn't. However, I think part of this stems from the fact that the twist at the end was basically a major plot hole because there was no way to see this coming. The more I think about it, the more I realize that it's just because the narrator was so unreliable and unobservant that she kept leading us in the wrong directions. She was still really messed up, even if she refused to see it, and allowed herself to be manipulated and pulled in many directions. I just think that the whole twist seems a bit over the top and impossible because it all tied up a little too nicely. I don't think that the people involved would really have had the patience to slowly ruin Julia's life over that insanely long amount of time. It just felt jumbled and over-the-top and I'm annoyed with how I'm supposed to believe that one character, in particular, was responsible for everything when we clearly had no reason to even think that.

A very disappointing read. The first prson narrator is so idiotically naive that she almost deserves what she's got coming. A long drawn out plot with a sudden but not very convincing twist. Too much repetition throughout the book. Way too much rumination of the narrator.