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There were breadcrumbs placed throughout the book that made me want to keep reading. For example, there would be just one sentence moving the plot forward that would force me to ask how or why while turning to the next page. The plot was also complex. It wasn't necessarily a direct connection that drove behavior, but an indirect connection. I initially felt like I could relate to one of the main characters, but as I learned more through character development, I realized we were actually nothing alike. I can usually predict a plot twist, but i missed this one! I love a book that can completely surprise me and this one did!

Overall, I did not enjoy this book. I found the characters to be unlikeable and unredeemable, especially the more you learned about them. There were too many "twists" that felt like they were there for shock value. It was also uneven in the story telling. You think it's about one person and then it goes on and on about another character, then back to the first.

Kate and Jack have been married for 30 years. Like many long-term couples they have evolved a shared private language, an exclusive and often unkind vernacular of nicknames, references and in-jokes. Phoebe Mull is a generation younger and the writer behind the year's runaway hit TV show, Cheating, an unapologetically amoral depiction of intergenerational adultery. Their lives appear to be unconnected, until Kate discovers that the details bear a striking resemblance to her own life. She jumps to the conclusion Jack must have been having an affair and spirals deeper into despair and grief.
Each woman narrates her chapters in the first person, but there's little to like about either woman – both are vengeful, self-serving, and often clueless. I saw the twists coming a mile away and found the plot ultimately unsatisfying. Although revenge is a dish best served cold, this revenge plot was just too obvious, complicated, and unbelievable. I wanted to like this book far more than I did.

In this John Lanchester novel Look What You Made Me Do. Kate, the lead character had no idea how low she was going to sink the day she found her husband dead on the toilet seat at three o'clock in the morning. Her grief knew no bounds, but it wasn't all her fault, or was it really? Hmmmm. Well, there are some twists and turns, and strictly twisted people and I found this story drug on and on. Just a bit too unbearable. No one to like. The last fifty or so pages were the most exciting - but for me not worth the journey, sorry to say.

I truly tried to read this story with an open mind, but I just could not finish it. First off, I never did quite get the storyline and secondly, I could not get past the vulgar language. I didn't like Kate, she is too mixed up and indecisive for me. I got very tired of the repeated comment "Jack is dead." Could not get into Phoebe either. Just not my type of read; did not learn anything new, lacked substance of the storyline and was too 'reality TVish' for my taste. Thanks BookBrowse for the opportunity but did not enjoy this book at all.