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Death of a Bookseller
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I don't know what to say about this book. I have so many conflicting thoughts. For starters, I wonder why anyone would give it more than 1 star.
TW: SA
When I first saw this book, I was excited. I was so thankful I got the arc from Netgalley! Like WOW, this book sounded so good. And the cover? Chefs kiss. Truly pulled me in. The synopsis explains that there is a girl named Roach (interesting name) who is into true crime (love a good mystery) and meets a girl named Laura and she feels intrigued by her. She soon realizes there is more to Laura than meets the eye... DUN DUN DUNNNNN
The synopsis is a lie.
The first few pages of the book really details out who our main character is. She is judgmental. She puts other women down. She is whiny. She thinks she is superior to everyone around her. And she is simple minded, a child really. I could not stand the main character and I was incredibly upset with the author for trying to make us not like the victim of the story.
Roach becomes so obsessed with Laura that she steals her poetry, her rapey boyfriend tries to publish it, and then she LIES and pretends she didn't blatantly plagerise. When I tell you that this was the worst book ever written ever... that's an understatement.
The writer glorified a sick girl who manipulates everyone around her. The writer made this character seem misunderstood whe she wasn't at all. The writer also made the victim look crazy and like she deserved to be murdered! Let me make this very clear: NO ONE DESERVES TO BE MURDERED. Also, very early in the book, Roach meets a guy who casually rapes her and then she's just fine with it? She lost her virginity to this guy and then he asks her all of these disgusting innappropriate questions and she just tells him what he wants to hear. They are both derranged but he needed to be arrested for simply breathing in the general direction of the human population. He was possibly the worst book boyfriend I have ever read ever.
At the end of the book, Roach gets away with everything. Nothing happens to her. And Laura? The victim? She is seen as the person who went crazy and caused all this drama. That everything was always in her head. I have never hated a book from beggining, middle, end, as much as I did this one.
I really didn't want to write this review because I don't want anyone to read this book. I figured if no one talked about it, then maybe no one would read it. But there are so many positive reviews on Goodreads that I felt like I needed to make sure people understood, THIS IS A BAD BOOK.
TW: SA
When I first saw this book, I was excited. I was so thankful I got the arc from Netgalley! Like WOW, this book sounded so good. And the cover? Chefs kiss. Truly pulled me in. The synopsis explains that there is a girl named Roach (interesting name) who is into true crime (love a good mystery) and meets a girl named Laura and she feels intrigued by her. She soon realizes there is more to Laura than meets the eye... DUN DUN DUNNNNN
The synopsis is a lie.
The first few pages of the book really details out who our main character is. She is judgmental. She puts other women down. She is whiny. She thinks she is superior to everyone around her. And she is simple minded, a child really. I could not stand the main character and I was incredibly upset with the author for trying to make us not like the victim of the story.
Roach becomes so obsessed with Laura that she steals her poetry, her rapey boyfriend tries to publish it, and then she LIES and pretends she didn't blatantly plagerise. When I tell you that this was the worst book ever written ever... that's an understatement.
The writer glorified a sick girl who manipulates everyone around her. The writer made this character seem misunderstood whe she wasn't at all. The writer also made the victim look crazy and like she deserved to be murdered! Let me make this very clear: NO ONE DESERVES TO BE MURDERED. Also, very early in the book, Roach meets a guy who casually rapes her and then she's just fine with it? She lost her virginity to this guy and then he asks her all of these disgusting innappropriate questions and she just tells him what he wants to hear. They are both derranged but he needed to be arrested for simply breathing in the general direction of the human population. He was possibly the worst book boyfriend I have ever read ever.
At the end of the book, Roach gets away with everything. Nothing happens to her. And Laura? The victim? She is seen as the person who went crazy and caused all this drama. That everything was always in her head. I have never hated a book from beggining, middle, end, as much as I did this one.
I really didn't want to write this review because I don't want anyone to read this book. I figured if no one talked about it, then maybe no one would read it. But there are so many positive reviews on Goodreads that I felt like I needed to make sure people understood, THIS IS A BAD BOOK.
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Nov 10, 2023 03:03AM
This grubby sick dirty unhygienic mess perfectly sums up the character of each girl and it is a superb debut that I loved . Highly addictive and felt like I was reading something I shouldn’t. Unsettling guilty sick pleasures are the secret joys in life🤟🤟
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This is exactly how I felt about the book, thank you! I wrote my review before I read yours and yes, how TF did Roach get away with everything, srsly, nobody even liked her, I’m just so baffled as to how a book THIS BAD was rated highly by others!
I don’t think you quite grasp the poetry of it. it’s all corners and layers. it’s a reflection of two flavours of deranged. I found it to be a masterpiece.
Thank you for confirming my dnf of this book a few minutes ago.
Wow your point is so interesting, I didn't see it like that at all. I didn't feel at all a trying to make Roach seem as 'misunderstood' like I couldn't stand her and saw clearly how it was written to be seen obsessed and full of herself to the absolute absurdity and insane. On the other hand I could sympathise with Laura and she was a nice girl overall even with her flaws or personal problems. Like I felt really bad for Laura specially also cause at the end no justice could be done for her and Roach gets away with all and is still obsessed with writting the book to 'bond' them. It felt sad and uncomfortable as all the stalking Roach does on Laura without her noticing until is to late.
