Hello everyone!
I am back with another book review, unfortunately, it is one for a book I did not finish, The Incident on the Bridge by Laura McNeal.
This story is supposed to follow the story of Thisbe and the "incident on the bridge." I don't really know what the incident was because I didn't get that far, although I have my guesses.
I just couldn't get into this book, mainly for two reasons.
The writing style and layout of this book is so choppy. The story would go from present day to a "flashback," and back again all within a couple of paragraphs with no transition or anything to signal that the timeline is moving. It was beyond difficult to follow and I kept trying to figure out what was going on 'now.'
My other issue was that there are a bunch of random character perspectives. The first chapter is Thisbe narrating the events up until the bridge. After that, however, each chapter was another perspective of someone who is a small piece of the story. I made it 59 pages in and there was, I kid you not, 9 different people telling the story. I'm not convinced they are ALL relevant or important and they felt unnecessary.
I'm really devastated I couldn't get into this book. The premise sounded really good and it was on my most anticipated reads of 2016 list last year. Unfortunately, I guess it just wasn't for me.
I read a couple other reviews and from what I can see, things don't get better as the book goes on so I'm putting this one down.
Overall, I don't think I'd recommend.