February 2018 Book Club - Little Broken Things

Requested Jan & March's from the library- but ours doesn't have this one- I'll have to keep my eye out or get it on my nook. One of my resolutions is to spend more time reading!

 

I totally thought the January book was this one. So while I was reading I kept expecting the things the synopsis talks about to happen in the Stillhouse Lake. About halfway in I understood the "problem". Lol!
But yeah, I hope to read this one too. Sounds very interesting!

 

Guess I can start reading/listening to this one now. Yay!

 

I am struggling getting through this one. I think it's the jumping from character to character. I find that to be frustrating if the story isn't also moving with them and I just don't feel it is. I'm barely halfway through.

 

The story is ok, but it just jumps too much. I like a story that I feel like it's moving forward. and I feel like every 4 chapters I get a different story. LOL. I just need to finish it.

 

ooo... I'll go look it up!

 

I’m about 1/3 through the book and am liking it so far. I still don't know for certain what the big secret is, and I just want them to get to it already, but I have a feeling that won't be revealed until the end of the book. I think I know what it is though (hey, watching years & years of Law & Order and Criminal Minds mysteries should serve me well for something).

I'm listening to the audiobook, so the switching between character perspectives I think is a little easier to handle because the narrator does different character voices, so perhaps it's keeping them delineated a bit better in my head than if I was reading the words.

 

I plowed through it last night knowing it was hopefully my last long day in bed with the flu. The secret was exactly what I thought it was from about 1/3 of the way in, so I think I was a bit disappointed they drug it out so long. I wouldn't say it was my favorite book of all time, but it wasn't bad. Though I'm really looking forward to March.

 

Maybe that would make it better, but I still think the dangling got frustrating.

 

The library came through quicker than I thought they would. Yay!
Great book!

 

I finished the book Sunday and loved it. However, I listened to the audiobook, and I can see where that would make a difference with this particular tome since there is a lot of back and forth between who is narrating.

I was right about the secret. I think I watch too many mysteries to be surprised anymore by anything I watch or read. I do recommend the book. I thought it was great.

 

Did you start this one, Berniek?

 

I should! I’m kinda stuck in some other books and I don’t like any of them so there’s hardly any progress.

 

I really liked it. It isn’t a book I normally would have bought/read, but that’s what this book club is for IMO, and I’m so glad I read it. I give it a thumbs up!

 

I thought so too about the husband semi spoiler: "I was glad he turned out to be a good guy "

 

There are still 10 people ahead of me on this one...looks like it could be a almost summer read for me! I've had one or two recently that have had 20 or 30 people in the hold queue. sigh