Name: Body in the Web
ISBN: 9780063252530

Katherine Hall Page

A Novel

Body in the Web

i think this was written specifically for the nursing home crowd, so maybe it's not fair for me to rate it, but anyhow.

there are approximately 200 characters, and just as many povs and timelines. with that much going on, you'd think there would be a lot of interesting action, but it's a solid 200 pages of who had what baby and who had a phone call with who. this book has 248 pages. the mystery is introduced in page 90. 90. that's 1/3 of the way in. then you get 50 or so pages of a whole lot of nothing, before the murder happens around page 140. then you get a lot of asking around—there is no actual sleuthing, no evidence, it's just the mc going around asking random people questions—before you get a random drunk confession around pages 235-240. 

even though this is less than 250 pages, it has more filler than a 1000 page fantasy book. just pages and pages of descriptions of random furniture and who wore what rolex and how abc knew xyz as a private school child. awful, cluttered dialogue but at least they were a reprieve from the droning descriptions. and making it take place during the pandemic was even worse. no book should mention the word zoom that many times. 

even if you ignore the atrocious plot, the writing style itself is unnatural and stilted. very children's book-ish. reading this was a wasted hour of my life. the author must be something talented to come up with something so purposefully offensive to the eye, so kudos to her i suppose.

Body in the Web A Novel

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