56 Days
After meeting at the start of lockdown, Oliver and Ciara decide to move in together, seeing a unique opportunity for a relationship to flourish without the scrutiny of family and friends. But when detectives arrive at Oliver’s apartment and discover a decomposing body inside, can they determine what really happened, or has lockdown created an opportunity for someone to commit the perfect crime?
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Readers say *56 Days* by Catherine Ryan Howard offers a gripping mix of romance, crime, and mystery set during the COVID-19 lockdown, with multiple tw...
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What’s it about?
Ciara and Oliver meet just as Covid hits Dublin. The lockdown threatens to end their new relationship. Should you move in with someone you barely know?
What did it make me think about?
Catherine Ryan Howard has quite an imagination!
Should I read it?
This is a novel for all those who love a mystery with lots of good twists and turns.
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“The truth is, however well this may seem like it’s going they don’t know each other, not really. This situation is revealing that, up close and in harsh lighting.
They don’t know what the other does in times like this. Are they the kind of person who wears a mask before it’s mandatory and disinfects their phones and wipes their groceries down, or are they drinking cans in the park with friends on a sunny Saturday and sneering at anyone who tut-tuts as they pass.”
What’s it about?
Ciara and Oliver meet just as Covid hits Dublin. The lockdown threatens to end their new relationship. Should you move in with someone you barely know?
What did it make me think about?
Catherine Ryan Howard has quite an imagination!
Should I read it?
This is a novel for all those who love a mystery with lots of good twists and turns.
Quote-
“The truth is, however well this may seem like it’s going they don’t know each other, not really. This situation is revealing that, up close and in harsh lighting.
They don’t know what the other does in times like this. Are they the kind of person who wears a mask before it’s mandatory and disinfects their phones and wipes their groceries down, or are they drinking cans in the park with friends on a sunny Saturday and sneering at anyone who tut-tuts as they pass.”
I struggle with multiple timelines and multiple povs. This one has multiple pov past, middle, and present timelines then adds another timeline and another pov at the end. It’s too much for me personally.
The story in itself is good. The twist got me. I had to go back and reread a few chapters to get the story straight.
DNF at about 60%. I mean, seriously, moving in with someone even if it's just for 2 weeks after you've known them a month or two? And then second-guessing your decision and not going back home even though you had the ability to do so over and over and over? It was just a loop of 'I'm going to do this' followed by 'oh no that was probably a bad idea' followed by 'I'm so suspicious of this person.' Over and over. It doesn't go anywhere, at least not for the first 60% or so. By the time I gave up, I had found myself wishing that legit anything else would happen.
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