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Book Review of The Birthday Girl

The Birthday Girl
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This is just a 'ho hum' book, it is mostly written in what I call 'description writing' meaning it is mostly pages of descriptions and not much dialogue

I didn't find any of the characters likable in anyway, and I certainly didn't see any of them as 'friends'

It mostly is a 'dateline' on paper, it's a story done many many times by others with really not much new added, I didn't find anything like 'suspense' to it and the 'thriller' it is not, so I guess maybe you might just call it a mystery because you mainly just want to know the killer, but if you're good at mysteries you'll figure it out

By page 175 it was just draggy and kind of boring and I didn't find anything to put me on the edge of my chair (which a good thriller will do), instead you have to struggle through the problems of the friendship and how deceitful they all are etc, I hit the mark of boredom and started to skip and skim the pages, so here is a story already done, the motive already done, the killer easy to figure out and pages and pages of just descriptions to wade through (that's the way Forin writes this story)

I wanted to like it and wanted to find a new author but this didn't happen, I might try another by her if the library gets it but I won't buy it (got this one from the library)