His & Hers and And Then She Was Gone

His & Hers by Alice Feeney 

And Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell

Read January 2024 - Zoom Reading Circle

For January, I didn’t much care for either Zoom Reading Circle book selection.  :(  So I'll just post about them together... they will forever be lumped together in my mind, that is for sure.  

His & Hers by Alice Feeney

I listened to this one and while I guess I liked it better than the other book this month, I did not find it an enjoyable read.  It was just all so dark and seemingly pointless.  So many nasty people that you don’t care for or root for and so much awful behavior treated as a norm. Maybe it is how people act all the time, but yuck... it was awful. Basically, a news reporter is covering the murder of a woman in Blackdown and her ex husband is the detective on the case.  Turns out they both have deep connections to the murder victim going all the way back to high school.  And there are more ’twists and turns’ and connections which basically make you feel icky most of the time. The ending was so convoluted that I literally said ‘What???’ a couple of times!  Not my thing, this book.  I rated it 3 on Goodreads but honestly, it was a 2 for me.  Zoom Reading Circle rated it 3.1 stars.

Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell
If you can believe it, I disliked this one more than the first one.  In fact, I refused to finish it.  It was far too gross and awful to slog through anymore.  I don’t know why people would be entertained by truly horrific human behavior against the only character in the whole mess of a book that you can like or feel sorry for... a young teenage girl!  So much in this book to make you go ‘Ewwww...’  And when it got to more graphic depictions of the violence against the teen, I just was completely done.  No reason I can think of to fill my head with that trash.  Awful.   :(   This was a 2 or even a 1 for me.   :(  Zoom Reading Circle rated it 3.3 stars.