August 2021 Group Read - The Appeal by Janice Hallet

[Chris]

Hmm. Interesting way of presenting the 'facts'. I'm about 100 pages in so no sign of a murder yet.

[Chris]

Okay, I bothered to finish. 2 stars for okay. I don't think I'd like to read another book in that sort of bitty format.
Call me old-fashioned, but I read to escape, not to have to have paper and pen to hand so I can take notes.
Great if you want to feel as if you're personally involved in an investigation though.

[Shell]

I'm sorry, I tried with the book, but I'm finding the format difficult to get into. I think I'll have to skip this month's read.

[Chris]

For what it's worth - the top 3 reviewers of this book on its main page that gave it 5 stars pretty much give 5 stars to everything they read, whether they seem to like it or not.
Kinda like Amazon or other review places. You can't judge a book by other people's opinions online because they always put the best ones first. You have to search hard for the few critisisms that people bother to post.

[L.A.]

Not so sure about that Christina as I've not looked at other reviews in that way. What I do know is that it's frustrating when you get a poor review or low rating without even a comment, and unexpected 5 star reviews are rejected by Amazon for reasons they won't explain. I also know that I don't give a poor review or rating when I've not enjoyed a book as 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder' and just because I haven't enjoyed a book doesn't mean that others wont.

[Beth]

Shell wrote: "I'm sorry, I tried with the book, but I'm finding the format difficult to get into. I think I'll have to skip this month's read."
at least you tried. I read a review that referred to the format, and having [started to] read something using a similar format, decided to give this one a miss.