Sunday, 19 April 2026

Burn After Reading by Catherine Ryan Howard

Description from Amazon:

A ghostwriter is tasked with capturing the memoirs of a celebrity widely suspected of murder; now she’s locked in an interview room with a killer and he’s ready to confess... The night Jack Smyth ran into flames in a desperate attempt to save his wife, he was, tragically, too late - but hailed a hero. Until it emerged that Kate was dead long before the fire began.

 

This is the first book I’ve read by this author and based on this I wouldn’t read another. The story starts off with a bang and you are sucked into a situation someone is not getting out of and might end up dying in horribly. This definitely grabs attention.

 

Then the book meanders into the weird rules about how the ghostwriting must take place, Emily’s feelings toward Jack and her going back and forth between believing him or not, and then the misdirection the author tries to take us through. Which, unfortunately, is not difficult to spot.

 

The characters are 2D and I felt nothing for any of them. There are huge plot holes in the book that the author tries to explain but it feels like the explanations are being tacked on. I read the whole book in hope, but by the end I felt shortchanged.



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