I just never really got invested in A Slow Fire Burning. I guess I was expecting another Girl on the Train.
Very quickly: There is a murder and several people could be responsible. The mom, the dad, the crazy neighbor lady, the one-night-stand. They are all mostly awful, except for one, so I didn't really care much about who ended up the culprit.
There are several perspectives, and the characters are well depicted, so I didn't have trouble keeping them separate. The writing is good, and the story moves fairly quickly.
I had no trouble finishing and enjoyed A Slow Fire Burning, but I never had that heart-pounding, compelling desire to know who did it.
Here's a link to the blurb if you are interested.
Published by Riverhead, August 31, 2021
Copy obtained from NetGalley
320 pages
Rating: 3.5/5
A thriller/mystery needs to have some heart-pounding or at least a desire for the reader to figure out who did it. Too bad this one didn't get there.
ReplyDeleteI felt pretty much the same way about this one.
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