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Before the Fall
June 2020: Suspense
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Before the Fall/Hawley - 2 stars
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Honestly, I really liked The Good Father so my expectations for this one were on the high side, but alas, it was not my cup of tea. For a suspense novel, it was pretty boring. It starts off well with a plane crash. Unfortunately, it's all down(hill) from there.
The characters are mostly caricatures (with a few exceptions). But to be honest, the book mostly commits the cardinal sin of being boring. I think the author's choice to devote a chapter to each character on the plane really slowed the narrative roll. The third section which focuses on the mystery of why the plane went down, was definitely a more interesting; however the cause of the mystery was seriously lacking in creativity. There's a lot of loose ends left hanging to boot.
All in all, I'm just mad at myself for spending 3 weeks on a throwaway beach type read. So 2020.