annieterminetschuppon7232
10 days ago
So, you've paid a fortune in wood burners + kind of super industrial hitting system and this winter, you are still using oil hitting system
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I think Fanny, Miss Chatelaine, and at times perhaps Ñutty have shared the Caroline Gooder account.
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Latest review of The Estate by Ruth Kelly on the Goodreads site by
Jannelies (slowly getting there)
1,068 reviews
December 10, 2023
“Well, how to start? By explaining the three stars I gave the book I think.
Three stars because the author did a terrific job in describing a couple of very, very stupid and shallow people. And a group of very, very bad and ruthless people.
The similarities here are the fact that the couple is almost worshipped in public for their stupidity and the group of bad people is equally worshipped but not in public. On the contrary.
What have we here: Adele, a young woman with an IQ smaller than her shoe size - and her lying and cheating friend Jack. They're together for eight years already and they fit perfectly because they both feel that they 'deserve' all kinds of things without ever having to lift a finger. I applaud the author for making up a character like Adele - although I believe there are many 'Adeles' in this world nowadays. I try and avoid the whole fake world where the Adeles of this world live in and I'm happy to say I usually succeed - I stick to reading book revies ;-).
Anyway, Adele has a sister, Erin, and when their mum is very ill and Adele doesn't respond to Erin's messages,
she flies to France to try and talk sense in Adele (for as much as this is possible). We all know what happens then: Adele and Jack are nowhere to be found.
It turns out Adele stumbled over a big secret - there's a group of very bad people who organizes 'parties' that are not exactly a party for everyone involved. I say 'stumbled' because it's not she's actively looking for the cause of the strange things that happen around her 'dream castle'. And now Erin has to find her sister, and soon!
Phew!
Three stars for the characters, especially Adele and Erin who are equally stupid but both in their own way. Erin I liked a little better but not much. I
have no feelings at all about Jack because he's hardly in the story except where Adele gushes over his good looks and how great he is - and then turning and looking into his telephone because she doesn't trust him. Talking about trust! Secretly looking in your partners' telephone is an absolute 'no' in my world.
Enough said. I think there will be enough readers to like this book as much as I disliked the characters and the second half of the story. The first half is more or less ok.
Thanks to Netgalley and PanMacmillan for this review copy.”