Rating: 1/5
Review:
Very disappointing
I had two good goes at this book, but I gave up in the end. I’m
very disappointed because I loved My Year Of Rest And Relaxation, but
I simply couldn’t get on with Death In Her Hands.
The book is the
internal monologue of a widowed and isolated woman whose life seeking
solitude and calm is disrupted by finding a disturbing note while
walking in the woods. It’s an intriguing beginning...which goes
nowhere extremely slowly. I just couldn’t keep going with the
endless minutiae of Vesta’s thought processes and what was intended
to be an intimate psychological study was, to me, tedious, stodgy and
uninteresting.
Otessa Moshfegh is a
fine writer, but this one did nothing for me whatsoever, I’m
afraid.
(My thanks to
Jonathan Cape for an ARC via NetGalley.)
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