I don't know if I liked this book or was appalled by it. A little bit of both.

This was a confusing mishmash of characters and the book takes forever to get going.

Jackson and Julia are toxic as anything. There's a scene we get via Jackson and we learn about him and Julia and I just wanted to scream and drop the book right there. Also I don't even know what to say about Jackson. Or we supposed to feel sorry for him due to his sister or brother? Cause he sucks a lot I realized. And he really didn't investigate much in this one, just had remarkable coincidences happening. 

Louise (inspector) was more interesting than Jackson and her interest in him didn't even seem believable. 

Good lord, Martin. I just....I am going to need to sit and think on him a bit.

Gloria is also as terrible as her husband Graham I have to say. I just think it's hilarious she doesn't realize it. Or maybe she does when you get to that ending. 

The writing was eh and the flow was so bad that I started to just want something to happen. And then there's just plot holes left unaddressed by the end of this book.

I needed a yarn wall at the 60 percent mark because seeing how everything and everyone was linked was a lot and I started to think the whole thing was just ridiculous after a while. 

I don't know if I liked this book or was appalled by it. A little bit of both.

This was a confusing mishmash of characters and the book takes forever to get going.

Jackson and Julia are toxic as anything. There's a scene we get via Jackson and we learn about him and Julia and I just wanted to scream and drop the book right there. Also I don't even know what to say about Jackson. Or we supposed to feel sorry for him due to his sister or brother? Cause he sucks a lot I realized. And he really didn't investigate much in this one, just had remarkable coincidences happening. 

Louise (inspector) was more interesting than Jackson and her interest in him didn't even seem believable. 

Good lord, Martin. I just....I am going to need to sit and think on him a bit.

Gloria is also as terrible as her husband Graham I have to say. I just think it's hilarious she doesn't realize it. Or maybe she does when you get to that ending. 

The writing was eh and the flow was so bad that I started to just want something to happen. And then there's just plot holes left unaddressed by the end of this book.

I needed a yarn wall at the 60 percent mark because seeing how everything and everyone was linked was a lot and I started to think the whole thing was just ridiculous after a while. 

I´ve made a bit of headway in this book and I´m not sure if this book is one for me:

1) Everyone is pretty messed up, some of them to the point pf being incredibly annoying.

2) There is not a single woman in this book that behaves in a normal way. Not a single one.

3) I really appreciated Atkinsons writing style, which I would call stream of consciousness, in the very first chapter. Unfortunately, she uses this kind of writing style throughout the whole book. I know, this is supposed to be a literary thriller, but for me the mystery plot and this kind of writing don´t match very well. 

I´m honestly not sure what to do with this book.

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I´ve made up my mind and I´m definitely more in the mood for the Atkinson book at the moment.

The only other book I have read by this author was "Life after Life", a book which I didn´t like in regards to the story. But man, her writing style has been amazing in "Life after Life" and it is an amazing one in "Case Histories" as well

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Within a few pages Atkins has brought a whole family to life, with it´s problems, trials and tribulations and each member of the family feels like an individual with thoughts and feelings. And she does this with so much ease and a sense of humour, it´s really a joy to be reading her books for her writing style alone. I do hope, though, that this time I´m going to like the story as well.

Just when I thought I’d read enough World War II books (are they a genre? Should they be?), along comes another from Kate Atkinson, who has brought me through the war twice already, in Life After Life, and A God in Ruins. Ironically, I have these reviews back-to-back, but I actually read Transcription first, and am working my way through a backlog of reviews. In case you can’t tell, I’m a fan of Atkinson’s writing, and think that it can elevate even a mediocre storyline. There are compelling themes here—the women’s roles described offered yet another new perspective on the war—but the characters did not seem as developed, and the story as well-plotted as her other writing. You can see that even a partial miss for Atkinson still earns a respectable rating, because I liked it enough to finished it in a couple of days, and, even better, I learned something in the process.