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Book Review of The Break Down

The Break Down
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The first book I read by Paris was a 5 star read and I wanted more, so I ordered this one--what a mistake

I will give Paris credit for making you want to keep reading (which I did up until about page 200), this book is 415 pages and moves at a snail's pace, the storyline is not a new one it's been done many times already

spoilers not intended--so many stupid reasons for some of the many stupid events, Cass takes a back road home on a rainy night and stops when she sees a car pulled over, but because it's such a bad rainy night she doesn't get out to help and the other person doesn't either, so later when the other person is discovered murdered Cass won't come forward because she doesn't want her husband to know she took a back road? then so many of the 'forgetting' episodes just didn't make any sense but she was afraid she'd have dementia like her mother?

By page 200 I was just tired of wading through the sludge of this book and skipped forward, I pretty much had the 'mystery' pegged from the start so it didn't come as any surprise to me as to how this ended

I will try another book by Paris but it'll have to be better than this one or she'll be off my 'look for' list