Every Vow You Break

 

I received an advance reader copy of Every Vow You Break in exchanged for an honest review. I am sad to say it was all I could do to even skim parts of the story, it was so boring and slow moving. I do not feel like the story really started until around page 150, the first whole half could have been condensed into three maybe four chapters at most. 

Abigail makes the mistake of sleeping with a stranger on her bachelorette weekend. After that everything starts to get odd for her, she keeps seeing the man all over the place and her fiancé is acting all excited for the wedding and not noticing her behavior.  Happily married Abigail's husband Bruce whisks them off to a private island for a honeymoon. The island is not all it seems though. 

Everything is told from Abigail's point of view and a lot of the time she is alone so it feels like she is talking to herself. The writing made sense it just took a long time to get to the point then little bursts of something interesting would happen before things just slowed down to more filler. All in all not a writing style I enjoy at all. 

The Princess Academy

 

I got The Princess Academy out of the local little free library. I am always looking for age appropriate books for my Goddaughter that are well written with a strong female lead character.

Honestly I do not know why I kept reading the story, it was so boring and slow paced. Nothing exciting happened until the very end and then it was just a couple chapters of action followed by some strange twist of fate. I will not be passing this on to my Goddaughter. 

The Woman in the Window

 

I may get some hate for this but I saw a movie trailer for The Woman in the Window when I saw Little Women in the theater last year. Ever since then I have wanted to read the story but had to work up my courage to since it looked a bit scare jump at times. The Woman in the Window is the first book I have read based on seeing a movie trailer, I did not even bother to read the synopsis of the book before starting it. 

Anna Fox is an interesting character, with a PHD in psychology she comes off as normal and the reader wonders what is going on in her life to make her the center of a story for several chapters. Since the chapters are short (for the most part) it does not take long for the story to pick up and small tidbits of information about Anna and he mental state to be feed to the reader. Despite the story being mostly about Anna nothing ever feels boring or like not enough is going on to move the story forward. 

My biggest complaint with the writing is chapter size consistency, I like it when all chapters are about the  same length. While most chapters are five pages or less sometimes a longer chapter is randomly thrown in which I feel messes with the pacing of the story. Since I am not an old black and white movie buff I did not understand a lot of references to the movies Anna liked to watch so those parts I found sort of boring and sort of just skimmed any chapter where that was the focus. 

A couple parts left me wondering what was going on after the story ended but all in all the big questions and issues were wrapped up. While I would read another story by A.J. Finn I want to wait awhile since I like to mix up thriller writers so the stories do not all start to feel the same.