The Mulligan Curse, a review by Shelley

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The Mulligan Curse
Diane Barnes

Lake Union Publishing
Publication Date: February 4th, 2025
287 Pages
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Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy | Women’s Fiction

If you could erase years of your life would you want to, even if it means it would change everything? That’s the question Mary Mulligan has to answer. Sounds intriguing right? Wrong! I had so many problems with this book, believe the low rating. The first problem I had was Mary herself, she was just so damn unlikeable. The other problem was the plot, it had no surprises and I knew exactly where it was heading. Mary’s supposed to be a menopausal, middle-aged woman but she was so gullible and ignorant and she used no common sense. I didn’t like Mary’s cousin Darbi at all either. She lied by omission to Mary and didn’t tell Mary the important repercussions of erasing her life.

If you’ve read any of my reviews you know repetitiveness is a pet peeve of mine and this book was really repetitive. Over and over again Mary goes into her head thinking of the past and I became bored to tears. I felt like Joe Biden when he debated Trump the first time, “Will you shut up, man!” With books like this, magical realism, you have to have characters that work or are at least likable to some degree. I found Mary to be a whining complainer, you know the “woe is me” type. Add to that her cousin Darbi being untrustworthy and the repetitive plot this is a flop in my opinion. A much-used trope with nothing new or different to add to the genre.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the Advance Readers Copy.

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