📘📘1/2
The Bookseller
Valerie Keogh
Publication Date: March 3rd, 2025
Boldwood Books
288 Pages
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Genres: Thriller | Mystery | Suspense
This one did not make my heart pound as the blurb promised. Am I getting harder and harder to please, thriller-wise? Because yet another book with raving reviews from a reliable author failed to suck me in. There was nothing wrong with the writing with this one at all, Keogh continues to be at the top of her game. But I couldn’t get invested in the characters and I couldn’t sit long with it. It may have been a little too slow building for me.
I found much of this book hard to believe and implausible on many levels. I tried to relate to the main character but found it impossible; I just wanted to shake her until she made sense. Yes, it all comes together in a dramatic conclusion, but once the big reveal occurred I started to feel a little bored and that is never a good sign.
Did I enjoy it? Well, I kept reading because I wanted to see what happened in the end. Let me say that I still don’t buy it but I had a couple of hours of entertainment while reading. Just make sure that if you read this you can have a serious amount of skill in suspension of disbelief. But please, do not take my word for it. Keogh is a popular writer and the book has a 4.15 rating at the time of this review, but this one was just not for me. Maybe I’m just jaded from having read so many similar books and I’m an outlier one again. This isn’t the first book by this author that I’ve read, and I’m sure it won’t be the last.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the Advance Readers Copy.
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