📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚 56 Days
AUTHOR: Catherine Ryan Howard #CatherineRyanHoward
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Stars: ⭐⭐ + 🐢
Published: August 17, 2021
The Review 📚 56 Days
✨ The Title/Cover Draw:
- I received this book from Book of the Month and thought the setting was interesting.
💜 What I liked:
- The basic premise of the murder happening during COVID lockdown was so clever. I think I most connected with the POV of the cop – which I never do. I don’t like to be negative about books, but there wasn’t much I liked. However, I will say it wasn’t boring.
😱 What I didn’t like:
- I listened to this book on audio as well as physically reading. The book jumps between multiple timelines and POVs. As such, it was so confusing to follow to even catch the general story. It reminded me a lot of All The Missing Girls by Megan Miranda.
🚦 My face at the end: 🤔
💭 2 Reasons to Read:
- 1. Interesting setting
- 2. Plot twist on plot twists on plot twists
🕧 Mini-Summary:
- Ciara and Oliver meet and decide to move in together during lockdown. 56 days later, one of them is dead.
All thoughts and opinions are my own.
📘 Summary 📚 56 Days
No one knew they’d moved in together. Now one of them is dead. Could this be the perfect murder?
56 DAYS AGO
Ciara and Oliver meet in a supermarket queue in Dublin the same week Covid-19 reaches Irish shores.
35 DAYS AGO
When lockdown threatens to keep them apart, Oliver suggests that Ciara move in with him. She sees a unique opportunity for a new relationship to flourish without the pressure of scrutiny of family and friends. He sees it as an opportunity to hide who – and what – he really is.
TODAY
Detectives arrive at Oliver’s apartment to discover a decomposing body inside.
Will they be able to determine what really happened, or has lockdown provided someone with the opportunity to commit the perfect crime?