Yes, I know smells exist in the world, but I don't need to know that a certain item smells like this. There was a new smell every other page it felt like, and I got severely fed up with it. More or less.Ī secondary quibble, is the author seemed to focus a lot on the smells in the book. That's all very well and good if you enjoy reading YA books (I do), but from the cover, I wasn't expecting a YA book, I was expecting a thriller. And it feels like a waste of a couple of days reading.Īlso, my main quibble with the book (apart from Bibi, who you'll be glad to know, doesn't appear again after the first segment of the book), is it reads very much like a YA book. I wanted to put it down, and move onto the next book on my list, but I was so close to finishing it.
I ended up skimming from about 200 pages into the book. So the rest of the book feels completely unrelated (even though it is) and definitely feels tacked on and ever so slightly rushed, as if the author has no idea what they're writing about, or where they are wanting to go with the book. But it's like the author started writing the book, and then discovered they had finished the entire book, but it was only just over 100 pages long. But then I discovered the book is split into three parts: 2006, 1996, and 1936. And then she gets to the spooky old house shown on the cover. If she wasn't mouthing off at her adoptive parents, she was storming off in the huff. You'd think she was the only person in the world who had been adopted. I won't go into the storyline, as you can read the blurb for yourself, but within the first few pages, you discover that the lead character, Bibi, is a little brat.
I'd just read a good, but time consuming book (11.22.63 by Stephen King) and just wanted a nice easy read. Once I finally got around to reading this, I was actually looking forward to it. I originally bought this bought for someone's Christmas, but after seeing the cover and the blurb, decided they weren't getting it and kept it for myself.
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