Appeal

A Novel

English language

Published May 11, 2022 by Simon & Schuster, Incorporated.

ISBN:
978-1-9821-8745-3
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4 stars (8 reviews)

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Review of 'The Appeal' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

A 3.5 I rounded down. I found this to mostly be a really good time and engaging page turner. Nothing amazing, but readable and fun.

However it did go on too long for me. Reading the two legal folks puzzle it out got tedious, not that I had figured it out myself. I also found some of the content of book annoying - the use of words like “savage” and “primitive” when speaking of African countries, as well as the use of sexual harassment for plot.

The emails you read strain believability - I would have been texting 90% of this content - but I appreciate reading emails and not texts. It was a unique way to experience a mystery and provided a lot of humor. I love petty behavior and there was plenty of that.

Some parts of the resolution of the mystery I enjoyed and some I didn’t, …

Review of 'Appeal' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Read this in about 24 hours, so the descriptor ‘gripping’ is well-deserved. I was drawn to this by the voyeuristic promise of being presented with ‘case documents’, in the form of correspondence between our cast of characters, and trying to unearth the murder mystery. Much of the novel establishes what leads up to the murder rather than the event and its aftermath, so I wouldn’t call it a murder mystery in that sense. Nonetheless, it presents a curious cast of characters, members of an amateur theater group, and their inclinations and underhanded motivations that lead to the dreadful climax. I managed to pick this one up from the library, as it is definitely one to read in paper rather than ebook.

The premise of the novel is completely ridiculous—so don’t pay too much attention to it. All these characters send way more emails than I probably have in a given …

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