Couldn't even finish. Terrible writing ( )

Audible Audio- Thriller, and love story all in one - Interesting as well as very disturbing. Although I wouldn't classify as a favorite, it kept me interested until the end with not too much gore. ( )

2 1/2, really, but I don't do half stars. The plot was OK, and it did keep me engaged, although there do seem to be some holes. But some of the writing, especially the dialogue, was just so hackneyed. Bix and Josh didn't really come across as believable either. Overall, forgettable, but not awful. ( )

The Prettiest One by James Hankins is a advertised as a thriller but it really a mystery about a woman who returns home after disappearing without a trace months earlier. She returns home to her husband with a new hair color, blood on her clothes, a gun, and a bag full of mannequin heads. She doesn’t remember anything - her name, where she’s been, or why she left home in the first place. The story is about how she, with the help of her husband and her new boyfriend, uncover what happened to her and why she disappeared.
I give this book four stars out of five because it was advertised as a thriller but it is really a mystery. The book is well-written and the story flows pretty well. I’m not enamored by the boyfriend character (he snipes at the husband excessively.) While the fact that the main character has amnesia makes for a good story, I think it makes it difficult to establish believable relationships with her husband and boyfriend since she doesn’t remember either one of them. At one point in the story, her “true self” emerges which moves the story along but I wasn’t sold on the premise.
There are plenty of twists in the story and perhaps the only thrill in the story is near the end when she is captured and thrown in the trunk of a car. ( )

Twisty. Turny. Fast paced. Totally confusing at times. There could have been some additional development of the story. I feel like some things were avoided rather than purposely omitted. ( )