A Good Neighbor by Cathryn Grant - Review

The Good Neighbor by Cathryn Grant
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Wow! Just Wow!

I am speechless when I finally finished this book. I had to take a full day of complete sleep and distractions from any form of reading before I can finally make this review. I want to completely understand what just happened and confirm with myself how I feel about this book with a clear mind.

In the beginning, I was a bit bored with how the story started and its style of telling the story by using each character's perspective. I had to skip a few narratives about character development or past events because I'm in a hurry to find out what is happening.

I have read and enjoyed a lot of Detective and crime mystery but this is definitely on a different level. You know how it is, we like to guess what is happening and who is the culprit of the crime,...if there was a crime. But with how the book was intelligently written, I can't quite guess what's going to happen next. Until of course I reach the last 2 or 3 chapters.

It started very slow for me that I had to read the first 10 chapters for 2 days, but after the book kept me on its hook until I realized it's already the wee hours and I can't put it down. In the end, I was gasping in disbelief and I had to ask myself if I would've done differently if I was in Taylor's shoes. I guess I won't know the answer until I'm in the same scenario.

Overall, I really liked this book and after pondering for a day, I can't think of any other way to end the book than what is already written. I gave it a 4 out of 5 stars. It will be in one of those mystery crime suspense books that I really enjoyed but also forgettable after a while, which is not the books fault but mine. As I really like mystery novels but I also enjoy a bit of action and scares which this book lacks, but it doesn't make it bad.

I got a free Kindle copy of this book through NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.



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