MentEveryWord

I can’t wait to finish writing this review so that I can go read every other review I can find. I had a list of 4 books to choose from for my next book and I went with The Last Word because it was the highest rated on StoryGraph. I am now confident that this book must not only have the most extreme split of star ratings but that the rationals included with each review must be all over the place too.

I thought this book was an incredibly slow start. I can’t tell you how long I was listening, occasionally stopping it to wonder how on earth this could have been recommended on multiple Instagram accounts. The book then picked up and I did start to get into the premise of the book. Sadly, the pacing does not remain strong and I multiple times had to stop and wonder how there could still be more than a quarter of the book left. (I also was not pleasantly surprised by how the author chose to use that remaining part.)

The plot is beyond off the rails. I couldn’t tell if the author was attempting to write a parody of bad thrillers and suspending belief or if this was supposed to be taken seriously. The amount of “twists”, if you can call them that, was absurd. The two biggest plot twists couldn’t have been much easier to guess.

There wasn’t a single character that I cared about. I didn’t love anyone. I didn’t hate anyone. I wasn’t rooting for anyone. The only time I felt anything was when the dog was involved but they hardly count as a character.

I rarely rate a book below 3 stars but this one is going to have to be a 2 stars.