J Spin

As others mentioned, this book obviously never went through a proofreader or an editor. There are SO MANY inconsistencies in the details that I was literally fuming as I read it. I felt like I was being gaslit, and was constantly going back to see if I had misremembered what I just read, but no, somehow the author had forgotten what she wrote. The season changes throughout the book, but the author continues to describe ‘the winter wind’ even when we are told it’s June. It is constantly storming, or about to storm. A driveway that is described as a twisting drive is later written as straight and tree lined… A major event (no spoilers) takes place and while it should be the next day, it is described as happening weeks ago, only a few pages later to be described as days ago, making timelines hard to follow. My favourite is the magical gift basket that has two clementines and a banana in it 63 pages after we are specifically told that the main character had eaten all the fruit and there was only chocolates left. The descriptions are painfully repetitive, and redundant. Two sentences in a row start exactly the same with ‘I clicked on her username’… just lazy writing, and really annoying to read. If you don’t pay attention to details as you read, the story is well paced and interesting enough, but if you are an analytical reader, save yourself the grief! If you are a very anxious person, I might skip it as well, because most of the story is a paranoid fever dream and the neurosis of the unreliable narrator will leave you on the verge of a panic attack.