My Other Husband
Aug. 2nd, 2024 03:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearI picked up My Other Husband by Dorothy Koomson in a recent charity shop haul, as I have enjoyed several of her other books in recent years.
This one, however, didn't really grab me. It has the usual split timeline - present-day narrative about a writer named Cleo who is getting a divorce and destroying her career for unknown reasons and a historical narrative about her time at university, which would presumably eventually reveal the motivations behind her actions in the present day.
But nothing whatsoever happened in either timeline for over 70 pages - and it was incredibly repetitive, with multiple references to her 'terrible secret', that people would be shocked if they 'knew the truth' and that she 'didn't deserve' friends or a nice life.
It got very annoying, very quickly and I wasn't interested enough in any of it to stick it out to find out what the 'terrible secret' might be. So I decided to stop reading.
This one, however, didn't really grab me. It has the usual split timeline - present-day narrative about a writer named Cleo who is getting a divorce and destroying her career for unknown reasons and a historical narrative about her time at university, which would presumably eventually reveal the motivations behind her actions in the present day.
But nothing whatsoever happened in either timeline for over 70 pages - and it was incredibly repetitive, with multiple references to her 'terrible secret', that people would be shocked if they 'knew the truth' and that she 'didn't deserve' friends or a nice life.
It got very annoying, very quickly and I wasn't interested enough in any of it to stick it out to find out what the 'terrible secret' might be. So I decided to stop reading.
