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‘I Dont Like Mondays’ is the story of Cathy, a woman who mysteriously was rescued from train tracks being barely hit by a train.
She wakes up and doesn’t know who she is nor does she remember any events from the last 10 years.
I read this on recommendation in a Facebook book group.
The story takes you through a few weeks of her recovery and many revelations about who she was before the accident and what happened to her.
Along the way, she discovers that she was not such a great person to be around and was quite selfish.
We also get to see the investigation regarding how she got on the train tracks and other related incidents at that time.
This story started off pretty slow. At one point, I was like, okay, we get it, she doesn’t know what is the current status of anything, her marriage, motherhood, relationships.
It’s kind of interesting though to see how she thinks things are 10 years prior so everyone she meets is 10 years older than she remembers them. If she remembers them.
I will say, though the story starts slow (for maybe 40% of the book, as indicated by the Kindle app on my iPad), it does pick up towards the middle for a good bit.
We learn some really interesting information about a relationship the she didn’t know about.
But then maybe about 75% it slows down again.
It just starts to feel draggy, and a new theory is introduced.
While that theory is being played out, the real information about what happens to her comes out.
It seems… odd.
Without giving any spoilers, the other main person involved has some weird takes on information that they learned.
It just feels like their whole reaction is just way above and beyond what it should have been.
But then again, the person does seem to be not quite right in the head after all.
And the scene where Cathy finds out what happened to her and why she was on the train tracks is just in an odd setting with odd objects that put her in jeopardy. Seems unrealistic.
So, all in all, this was a pretty easy and quick read.
I don’t know if I was getting impatient or if it is just the natural flow to a story like this.
I’m kinda a ‘leave out any unnecessary details and scenery descriptions’ kinda gal, and this had some of it in the beginning and some throughout, so I’ve become pretty good at skimming that kind of information because it’s unimportant.
I would give this book a solid 3.5 stars out of 5.
Yes the mystery is interesting, and it’s fun as the mystery unravels. But it didn’t necessarily blow me out of the water with the revelations, though there were some interesting ones in there.
However, it does take a bit of time to get there, which is okay, but the beginning could take less time and the ending could have been a little more… realistic. I don’t really know the word for it.
The book does tie up the loose ends of relationships in the story in the Epilogue, which I guess is nice but not necessary.
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Have you read I Don’t Like Mondays? What did you think of it? Does this review make you want to read it?
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