yunsq's reviews
147 reviews

Ok. I didn’t see the twist coming. At all. Now I feel silly complaining about the lack of dialogue and dreary narration. 

Ending was sweet and tied in well with the prologue. I appreciate a neat ending in a thriller/mystery. 

Wow WOW WOW. My breaths are held, my head is racing and my toes are CURLED for this book. The last book I read was in early Jan and started on this hoping to get my momentum back … it did so much more. The unique, hence refreshing) premise, immaculate scene setting, and the delicious twists and turns……. I haven’t felt this impressed by a thriller in a while. 

What a delicious, gripping and intense mystery!! 

Could’ve been perfect if the ending was more resolute

How did Stuart survive the fire? Who saved him? Is Harry still sexually attracted to Robert? Why did Edward have to kill Fiona and Oliver? What happened in the house when Harry was out searching for clues??

and some plot holes rounded up.

Like why did the author decide to take Lila out of the game in the end? What’s up with Edward’s  odd childhood bedroom photos? Is it insinuated that ‘Edward’ is Bobby??

I’d say though, I felt the first half of the book dragged on a little longer than I’d have liked, but it could be the lull I was in with my reading. 

Overall, The Family Game gave me everything I wanted (rebuild my attention span after short video content dwindled it to nothing!!) and more!! I feel satiated by the thriller gods and am already excited for my next read!!

This was a total waste of my time. 

I devoured this book like sweet nectar. I can’t believe it ended I need an epilogue to Ruby’s life.

There are some books I read to get me back in the motion of reading on my kobo. The Unhoneymooners was one of those. Great plane and airport read. Also, a great I-am-doing-a-five-day-quarantine-in-a-hotel-and-cannot-leave-the-room-so-a-book-about-enemies-to-lovers-on-a-fake-honeymoon-shall-suffice read. :) Overall, happy. 

“Love is the honouring of our interconnected aliveness. And I am so grateful that I have survived.”

Also, doing breathing exercise between and after chapters would totally be incorporated into my reading habit now. 

I desperately wanted to enjoy and finish this book but the writing isn’t for me. I trudged through 35% of it thinking I might get used to it but alas, no. 

Run-off-the-mill mystery. Not particularly enjoyable and wasn’t nuanced enough for me to empathise with the characters without taking a liking to them. 

I think I gave this book 4 stars the first time I read it in 2020. 

Now it’s a solid 2 for me. 

I thought the writing style wasn’t for me and became unbearable after 50% of the book. It’s the casual racism and weird and irrelevant comments that annoyed me most. Lots of unnecessary details that dragged on and on and on and on that really bore me. Not an enjoyable thriller at all. 

I understand the underlying commentary of the book, but feel like we didn’t need all the graphic violence to make a point. 

Partly my fault for being stubborn about finishing the book just because.. argh. I’m annoyed.