Here’s this week’s Booking Through Thursday question:
What’s the biggest book you’ve read recently?
(Feel free to think “big” as size, or as popularity, or in any other way you care to interpret.)
(Feel free to think “big” as size, or as popularity, or in any other way you care to interpret.)
Well, I’m going with A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick–which is “big” in the sense of “popular via word of mouth.” I also sense that the publisher is pushing it, because it’s received some decent promotion that way, too.
Because it’s “big,” I haven’t written about A Reliable Wife on my blog, since it seems that so many people already have heard about it and I don’t know that I have much new to add. I liked it OK, and it felt like rather a guilty pleasure to read. But I also disliked all the characters, so I wasn’t fond of the book… just hooked on finding out what would happen. It was a plot thing.
So here’s what I think is driving the word-of-mouth popularity: This book is hot (in the sense of Steamy). And I think it’s apt to satisfy the Jodi Picoult fans because it also has a humungo plot twist.
Was it worth all the hype? Naaah. But it sure sucked me in and made me tear through it at breakneck speed. So that’s not nothing!