Don't Let Her Stay
by Nicola Sanders
Blurb:
Joanne knows how lucky she is. Richard is a wonderful husband, Evie is the most gorgeous baby girl, they live in a beautiful house… Life couldn’t be better.Until Richard’s twenty-year-old daughter Chloe turns up. Chloe hasn’t spoken to her father since the day he married Joanne two years ago. But Chloe wants to make peace. She’ll even move in for a few weeks to help Joanne with the new baby.It sounds perfect, but when things happen that make Joanne feel like she’s losing her mind, she begins to wonder: Is Chloe really here to help? Or has Joanne made a terrible mistake by letting her move in?And is it too late to ask her to leave?
My Reaction:
Oh. My. Gosh. Look, I know people have different tastes, but I cannot fathom why this book has such a high collective rating! It's simply inexplicable, except for the fact that it is/was included in Kindle Unlimited, which I suspect often bumps a book's ratings by virtue of the sheer number of people reading it.
This took much longer to read than it should have because I kept having to put it down in annoyance. I knew I should've made it a DNF, but at that point, I wanted to see just how irritating it could be (and yes, what would happen). I really should have just stopped. It wasn't worth the frustration.
These are some of the most infuriating, stupidest, worst-written characters I've ever come across. As another reviewer put it, the only characters you can remotely care about are the dog and the baby (and even the baby kind of annoys me, if I'm honest).
If you enjoy spite-reading, give this a try. If you get a sick thrill out of reading about characters that you actively dislike—characters so excruciatingly idiotic and weak that you want to reach into the book and slap some sense into them—you're in for a real treat with this one. Otherwise, save yourself the annoyance!
(I don't think this would be something 372 Pages We'll Never Get Back would ever go for, but there's certainly plenty to talk about, assuming you don't mind a ton of "OMG, this is so stupid"...)
