Present: Alex, Mark, Jane, Nic, Jen, Gill, Shubha
Best food of the year to date, perhaps? Or that might just be me ...
Alex dismissed this book as a "safe choice" on announcement. If that meant "will be liked" it needs re-assessing!
I may pick this up again as the remainder of the story, as told by Mark and Alex on the night, did seem more interesting than the bit I read prior to the meeting but, thus far, I am not engaged.
Nathalie:
I found to book quite grey and lacklustre, and the characters not particularly interesting. My view is that if you're going to write a book with just 2 people in a cell, there needs to be an emphasis on who these people are and how they feel so that you can get involved and create pictures in your mind.
Why the endless footnotes?
Plus too much information about the food poisoning - that kind of thing upsets me.
I didn't actually finish it, though, and hear there was some kind of suspense at the end so maybe should have stuck with it.
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