November 01, 2015

The Good Neighbor - A.J. Banner

 

Lake House Publishing, September 1, 2015.







Two Stars



This book is supposed to make the reader question how well we can really know the people closest to us, and wonder about the potential evil behind our neighbors’ closed doors. All it made me do, was stop caring what anyone was up to, because the residents of Shadow Cove were so flat and unexciting. Even when they are committing heinous criminal acts to hide affairs, or start other affairs, I just couldn’t be bothered to care what they were doing.


One of the main problems was that the plot was weighed down with way too much unnecessary descriptive detail – mostly describing unimportant things that didn’t help me to visualize the scene or characters as a whole. The second problem was that there really was not a lot of action to build up the mystery. The twist was actually a good one that I didn’t see coming, but it wasn’t nearly as exciting as it could have been.


As other reviews have mentioned, I think this novel could have been helped with a lot more editing. There was minimal action, boring characters and too many loose ends left over. This could be a good guilty-pleasure/escapist read, but even to get to that point, it needs more work.


I received this novel from Netgalley and Lake House Publishing in exchange for an honest review.

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