You Should Have Known
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Genres: Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Book Type: Hardcover
Author:
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Book Type: Hardcover
Helpful Score: 1
YOU SHOULD HAVE KNOWN was the November 2014 pick in my neighborhood book club.
If you enjoy rambling, skimmable narratives where the author dumps pages and PAGES of irrelevant backstory and musings in-between lines of dialoguethen this is the book for you. Nothingand I mean nothinghappens until about 150 pages of mindless New York City private school nonsense and Birkin bag shallowness.
Nothing. Happens.
Then we finally get to the point. Kind of.
A murder occurs. And Grace Sachs, a shrink who's married to a pediatric oncologist for 20 years, is shocked to find out she never knew her hubby at allit's really a wonder they even lived under the same roof for all she knew about him! It was pretty ridiculous, but this is clearly the reference of the book's title.
The pacing of this novel was slower than a snail. Seriously. But somewhere underneath the tedious, meandering narrative lay the potential for a pretty riveting psychological thriller. The author should've just hired a ghostwriter.
YOU SHOULD HAVE KNOW had an excellent premise but a dreadfully poor execution...unless you're a reader who enjoys books most other readers find boring. I give it a C-. I can't recommend it.
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If you enjoy rambling, skimmable narratives where the author dumps pages and PAGES of irrelevant backstory and musings in-between lines of dialoguethen this is the book for you. Nothingand I mean nothinghappens until about 150 pages of mindless New York City private school nonsense and Birkin bag shallowness.
Nothing. Happens.
Then we finally get to the point. Kind of.
A murder occurs. And Grace Sachs, a shrink who's married to a pediatric oncologist for 20 years, is shocked to find out she never knew her hubby at allit's really a wonder they even lived under the same roof for all she knew about him! It was pretty ridiculous, but this is clearly the reference of the book's title.
The pacing of this novel was slower than a snail. Seriously. But somewhere underneath the tedious, meandering narrative lay the potential for a pretty riveting psychological thriller. The author should've just hired a ghostwriter.
YOU SHOULD HAVE KNOW had an excellent premise but a dreadfully poor execution...unless you're a reader who enjoys books most other readers find boring. I give it a C-. I can't recommend it.
★
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