I got MY DARLING on the cruise ship. It's a British thriller about two couples, Jade and Tomas and Emma and Alistair. All four of them have secrets and all four of them are unreliable narrators. When they have their narrative POVs, they alternate between first and second person, using the "you" form to talk to their partner or one of the people who are part of the other couple. It's an unusual format, which I've never really seen before, and I was intrigued by the blurb, which seemed to promise a smutty tale of obsession and murder.
MY DARLING is an okay read. It's definitely the throwaway kind of book that you can buy at an airport bookstore, but I was invested enough in the murder subplot that I wanted to see what happened. I feel like this is one of those books that will probably appeal to people who enjoy antiheroes. The writing is not the best but the chapters are ridiculously short which makes it a very quick-passed read. I'd recommend this to fans of B.A. Parris and Dan Brown. You could totally read this on a four-hour flight.
2.5 out of 5 stars
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