I just finished “Good Bad Girl” by Alice Feeney, and I am done! The whole thing was a bunch of characters who knew what was going on and simply wouldn’t tell the reader! They all had places to go and things to do, without ever saying why they were doing it. It led to conversations that were stilted and unbelievable because they weren’t speaking like any normal person does.
I am so sick of it. It is not suspenseful or intriguing. It is lazy. It seems having an unreliable narrator these days is a cheap, lazy way to keep your plot “mysterious” when you know there really isn’t anything happening and it could all reasonably be wrapped up if that person just simply said what was going on and why they were doing what they were doing.
I prefer mysteries and thrillers where I can piece the clues together, not just some main character (in first person!) withholding information they already know.
Rant over.
by mimsyitonia