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The Trap by Catherine Ryan Howard
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I don’t think I’ve read a book so obviously padded with unnecessary filler material before. This shouldn’t have been a novel–it should’ve been a novella. There wasn’t enough story here to make a novel and it shows.

This book is filled with multiple POVs, and that’s fine, but there’s one POV that doesn’t fit and is so poorly written I ended up skipping every instance when it occurred after the first few times because it came across as evil villain monologuing. It was cheesy and that was where most of the filler sat.

As for the rest of the book? It was messy. It was unorganized. It felt like something that landed in a slush pile and I don’t know how any editor let it get this far. I don’t recommend it at all.

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Reading Progress

April 28, 2023 – Shelved as: to-read
April 28, 2023 – Shelved
August 6, 2023 – Started Reading
August 6, 2023 – Shelved as: advanced-reader-copies
August 6, 2023 – Shelved as: to-read
August 6, 2023 – Shelved as: crime-thriller
August 6, 2023 – Shelved as: crime-fiction
August 6, 2023 – Shelved as: kidnapping
August 6, 2023 – Shelved as: murder-thriller
August 6, 2023 – Shelved as: mystery
August 6, 2023 – Shelved as: psychological-thrillers
August 6, 2023 – Shelved as: serial-killers
August 6, 2023 – Shelved as: suspense-mystery-novels
August 6, 2023 – Shelved as: suspense-novel
August 6, 2023 – Shelved as: suspense-thriller-novels
August 6, 2023 – Shelved as: thriller-novels
August 6, 2023 – Finished Reading

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