Poison By Galt Niederhoffer
Genre: Thriller, Mystery,
Pages: 320 pages
Published: November 21st 2017
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Plot: Poison is a literary psychological thriller about a marriage that follows minor betrayal into a bubbling stew of lies, cruelty, manipulation, and danger.
Cass and Ryan Connor have achieved family nirvana. With three kids between them, a cat and a yard, a home they built and feathered, they seem to have the Modern Family dream. Their family, including Cass’ two children from previous relationships, has recently moved to Portland —a new start for their new lives. Cass and Ryan have stable, successful careers, and they are happy. But trouble begins almost imperceptibly. First with small omissions and white lies that happen daily in any marital bedroom. They seem insignificant, but they are quickly followed by a series of denials and feints that mushroom and then cyclone in menace.
With life-or-death stakes and irreversible consequences, Poison is a chilling and irresistible reminder that the closest bond designed to protect and provide for each other and for children can change in a minute.
My Review: I was so excited to be sent a copy of this from the publisher because of similar books I had liked. This was a book that hadn’t been on my radar. I’m honestly not sure this is something I would have picked up on my own but I was willing to give it a chance.
It took me a while to get into this book. I found the first part to be very boring and just couldn’t hold my attention. I found myself not wanting to pick up the book but I did just because I wanted to catch up on my yearly goal. Things did finally pick up in the second part but there were still a lot of things that bothered me about this book that I couldn’t fully enjoy it.
The main character was another problem I had with this book. I just felt she kept making a lot of dumb choices when she knew what was going on. I felt there were other ways around the situation she was dealing with. I also felt like the author was trying to make her an unreliable narrator but majority of the time I didn’t find myself doubting her. I believed it was happening because she kept putting herself in bad situations.
The last thing that really took away from the story was a lot of the comments the main character would make. She would talk about misogyny a lot. I understand what the author was going for. I just felt it was way too forced into the story. I felt like it was more the author telling me her feelings on the topic than what the main character felt. Whenever it would come up in the story it really took me out of the story. I have no problem with little comments but not full on rants.
It’s such a shame that I didn’t like this book. I felt it really had potential. I did end up enjoying the concept of the story. It ended up being a slow start but things did pick up by the second part. I just felt the main character and the random rants made me not enjoy it.
*Thank you so much Netgalley for giving me an E-Arc of this book for my complete and honest opinion.*Have any of you guys read this book?I know it is fairly new but I would love to get your thoughts on it if you have.
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