Christine Gabrièlle

Did I like this book? Eh. Did I hate it? Nope.

The Request was actually a fairly well-paced read. It took me about a month (of Mon-Fri, 15-30 min sessions) to finish. If it was awful, it would’ve taken me much longer; if it was great, I would’ve zoomed through it.

I guess my biggest gripe with the novel was Ryan’s stupidity. The sequence of events (which spanned only about two days if I remember correctly, which also seemed to be an unrealistic timeframe) just seemed so improbable.

Say a friend from college blackmails you into sneaking into his ex-girlfriend’s house (giving you the door code and all) to steal some letters he shouldn’t have written her. You succumb to the guilt of whatever this “friend” has over you and go into the woman’s house. Then, once in her bedroom, you notice a hand (presumably attached to a dead woman’s body) sticking out from under a pile of clothes on the floor. Are you then going to proceed to tug on the arm until you are absolutely sure it is attached to a dead woman and then root around until you find her cell phone and then take it with you when you finally decide to leave the house after you’ve dug around in the drawers to look for the stupid letters, leaving your fingerprints on everything?

You either?

Well, Ryan was that stupid. So many of his decisions throughout the course of the novel did not make sense. BUT! I had to keep reading to see how it would all end.

I actually was not surprised by the ending, though.

Overall, if you want a somewhat entertaining but mostly improbable murder mystery to read while you’re waiting at the doctor’s office, sure, go ahead and grab it. It was only $1.25 anyway.

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