Charley's Web
by:
Joy Fielding (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780743296014 (074329601X)
Publish date: March 18th 2008
Publisher: Atria Books
Pages no: 437
Edition language: English
Category:
Cultural,
Romance,
Adult,
Mystery,
Drama,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Suspense,
Canada,
Fiction
It's hard to like a book when the main character is not like-able. She even admits it. That she puts up walls and is not friendly with anyone. She doesn't even speak to her co-workers. She has embarrassed neighbors with her columns and thinks nothing of it. "For God's sake, Lynn. What did you expec...
This book felt like it was trying to do too much. It does tie everything together in the end but it still felt a little forced. Charley was not a favorite of mine. She said some really mean things (however much it may have been deserved) and the was all "What's wrong with me? Why did I say that?" It...
I would give this book a 3.5 actually. Charley Webb is a newspaper coloumnist who is given the opportunity to write a book about convicted child killer Jill Rohmer. Jill was convicted of sexually abusing and killing 5 and 6 year old children which made the story difficult, not to mention disturbing ...
So...when I complained that I was bored by this book early on in my reading of it, one of my GR friends told me it doesn't get much better and that I should pass on it and move onto something else. I was confused by all the higher stars, including her own 3 stars for the book, so I felt that I neede...
Well, I gave it a try and just can't get through it. Fielding is usually a favorite author of mine but I'm not enjoying this one and gonna have to give it a rest. Maybe I'm just not in the 'mood' right now, so I'm moving on.
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