2013年2月7日木曜日

Jen reads... Gone Girl

Yay, a book for adults! Hehe. 

I pretty much couldn't put this book down. I stopped watching tv and pretty much ignored google reader until I'd finished it. 

So, in other words, it was good! 

The book is about a couple who are (as becomes clear quite early on) not entirely happily married, and what happens when the wife, Amy, goes missing. It's told from the husband's point of view, and also through Amy's old diary entries. And if you haven't heard anything else about it, then I suggest that you don't read the rest of this review and go and read it immediately, so you can stay unspoiled for it. I only had vague inklings of what might happen, and I kind of wish that I hadn't had those. 

Read it! Go go go! 



..And now for people who aren't afraid of spoilery rambling (or who have read the book!)...

I really enjoy books with unreliable narrators. And this one has 2! So, yay! Although I was expecting the first twist (I didn't know exactly what would happen, but I knew that all was not as it seemed), I was definitely not expecting to have my alliances shift so often when reading it. (Although by the end, they were completely fixed).. I started off finding both Nick and Amy fairly sympathetic, and halfway through I had no idea what to think anymore. 


I don't think that the book is a great work of fiction, but it was nicely written and nicely plotted, and left me wanting to skive work and carry on reading (I didn't! Well done me), so I would definitely recommend it!

2013年2月6日水曜日

Jen reads... Monsters of Men

I finished this... a week ago? Life has got in the way of updating. CURSE YOU LIFE!!!

Ahem. 

Anyway, I'm not entirely sure that enjoyed is the right word to describe the experience of reading this, but I thought it was an excellent way to finish the trilogy, and I liked the unrelenting darkness. Heh. 

I think that one thing that I like about these books is that they haven't taken the easy way out at all.. The last book also addressed some things that I'd felt slightly uncomfortable about in the previous books (why the spackle are called spackle, for instance... umm, I think that was answered in this book, haha, I read them so close together that I'm not actually sure, but anyway...), and introduced a third point of view, so that you're seeing the story from pretty much all sides, which is always good! 

So now I've read the whole trilogy... I can wholeheartedly recommend it! Yay.

...now I'm a few posts in, maybe I should actually start telling people that I have a blog, haha :D