Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Book Review: All These Perfect Strangers by Aoife Clifford

Book Review: All These Perfect Strangers by Aoife Clifford
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group - Alibi 
                                    
Pen Sheppard accepts a scholarship to university in order to escape her hometown. After testifying against her best friend in a murder trial at the young age of 15 the townspeople never forgave her. She believes that going to a different town will allow her to start over. Unfortunately, she is wrong as she is soon entangled in another murder investigation.
                                                                                       
There is a lot of drinking, drug use, and meaningless sex in this book. At times it felt like it was only used as filler. There’s even some gang violence which is never really fleshed out.

Pen is such a flawed character and she lies so much and so well that it’s hard to find any empathy for her. I found that I was bored for a large chunk of the book. There was too much discussion about whether Pen was innocent or guilty. Since it was told from her point of view the protestations of innocent got old really quickly. Then you have to keep in mind that she is a really good liar and wonder what, if anything, that you are reading is true.

It was a bit of a mess and the ending was almost a given and unsatisfying. I don’t see myself reading this book again any time soon.


I received a copy of this book from Netgalley.com in exchange for an honest review.

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