Sometimes you read a book that you can’t believe is so bad you just keep reading it. This was one of those books. The shifting narratives don’t work, you pretty much know who did what it’s just a wait for the cops to figure it out. The only reason why I didn’t zero star this thing was the ending which made me go, huh. “The Couple Next Door” follows Anne and Marco Conti. A happily married couple (or it appears to be so) […]
Who’s the stranger in this house?
This book was a fast read for me. I’m not saying that because I think it was good, it just kept the momentum going. I was just talking to my friend who I borrowed it from, and I said that the writing was a little simplistic. It seemed like the writing wasn’t pretty enough or something? Like: “Tom was upset. He got in his car and drove away.” I don’t know, it could’ve used a little more emotion maybe. “Tom angrily slammed his car door […]
I wish it had ended about 4 pages sooner
Everyone in this novel is an unlikable idiot. So the premise is that Marco and Anne decide to leave their 6 month old baby alone at their house while they attend a dinner party at their neighbor’s house. They take their baby monitor with them and check on Cora, the infant, every thirty minutes. “Who goes to a dinner party next door and leaves her baby alone in the house? What kind of mother does such a thing? She feels the familiar agony set in […]
Not sure if it was a *good* book, but I definitely got hooked by it
Quite a few of y’all have reviewed this one already, so here I am to throw in my two cents. This is the book where the main couple, Anne and Marco, spend the evening at their neighbors’ house for a dinner party while leaving their six month old daughter behind in a crib with the baby monitor on. They agree to check on her every 30 minutes all night and everything seems fine. Then when they leave at the very end of the night she’s […]