I Found a Body - Becky C Brynolf

47% 

19.07.25

At first, the poor grammar made this really hard to follow, and then the confusing time-shifting plot and inconsistently drawn characters made it even harder. I still don't understand whodunnit or whytheydunnit or how someone who hadn't dunnit ended up in prison too. Nice cover, though.

The Drowned City - K J Maitland

Didn't finish

I'd never heard of the Severn Tsunami, but apparently it devastated the area in which I grew up 400 years ago. But that fascinating fact wasn't enough to keep me reading this gritty book - I couldn't cope with the graphic suffering and violence, and I didn't care about the bland protagonist. I also didn't care for the weird narrative jumps from third person to first and back again.

Birdcage Walk - Helen Dunmore

Didn't finish

I'd been wanting to read this for a while but, after a few chapters, I had to accept that I'd changed my mind. All rather unpleasant, and with nothing and nobody worth rooting for. Interestingly, I didn't get on with the only other Dunmore novel I've read, either.