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A review by aretz
Ghosted by Rosie Walsh
1.0
For those of you who just want to know why Sarah was ghosted here is the reason:
DNF at page 109 (32%) and then skimmed bits and pieces to the end. There's nothing here. I'm sorry. I pushed hard to get myself to read it, and I couldn't. I never felt connected to the characters. I wanted to, but the writing is just off. I just felt so distant to what was going on that it was a waste of my time to continue. The mere concept of someone her age falling in love in 7 days is just absurd. If she were young, and in her 20s, and still somewhat reckless, perhaps, but she's not. The romance itself, never felt real. There are only a few vignettes in order to convince the audience to care about Eddie, but they weren't enough--not to sustain a whole novel's worth of content.
There's a conversation in here with Jenni where we "not" talk about the accident Sarah was involved in (this is where I stopped reading). And here's the problem with "not" talking about really important details. In order to have convinced the reader to have continued reading, you needed to have revealed what happened in this accident sooner. There's nothing to drive the reader forward. What it becomes instead is a feeling that the characters know far too much compared to the reader. We already have our main mystery as to why Eddie ghosted her. We don't need another fabricated one that ultimately serves no purpose.
Spoiler
When she was 17 she recklessly somehow got roped into a street-car race. Her sister's best friend, Alex, is in her passenger seat. Sarah swerves to avoid killing Hannah, who is in the other car, and crashes her own vehicle. Alex dies, and Hannah decides to never speak to Sarah again. 19 years pass and Hannah has still not spoken to her. The book of course had led you to believe that Hannah was dead. Alex, turns out, was Eddie's sister. Eddie ghosted Sarah when he found out. More or less, he did it in order to reconcile the fact that he has fallen in love with his sister's killer.Spoiler
DNF at page 109 (32%) and then skimmed bits and pieces to the end. There's nothing here. I'm sorry. I pushed hard to get myself to read it, and I couldn't. I never felt connected to the characters. I wanted to, but the writing is just off. I just felt so distant to what was going on that it was a waste of my time to continue. The mere concept of someone her age falling in love in 7 days is just absurd. If she were young, and in her 20s, and still somewhat reckless, perhaps, but she's not. The romance itself, never felt real. There are only a few vignettes in order to convince the audience to care about Eddie, but they weren't enough--not to sustain a whole novel's worth of content.
There's a conversation in here with Jenni where we "not" talk about the accident Sarah was involved in (this is where I stopped reading). And here's the problem with "not" talking about really important details. In order to have convinced the reader to have continued reading, you needed to have revealed what happened in this accident sooner. There's nothing to drive the reader forward. What it becomes instead is a feeling that the characters know far too much compared to the reader. We already have our main mystery as to why Eddie ghosted her. We don't need another fabricated one that ultimately serves no purpose.