Book Review: Don't Let Her Stay

This was an interesting experiment for me. Largely, I enjoy checking out highly rated lists on goodreads, seeing what people have been enjoying this year. This time I felt like branching out, so I took a dip into mystery and I thought Don't Let Her Stay looked fairly promising. Something about how dire the title was and the overall premise of a step-mother meeting her estranged step-daughter for the first time and there being a big Mystery sounded good for a quick, 4hr read (at 2.0 speed on audio book). 

 

If you don't want spoilers, let me just say that I decided not to finish this book and look up the ending because it only dragged, but prickled as it did and I decided there was probably nothing it could offer me that would make the next two and a half hours worthwhile. In Video Game Review, this was once called Wolpaw's Law, the point where a thing can no longer be redeemed by its ending regardless of how high the quality is. (Think of it as the point at which the final can no longer salvage your grade.)

 

( Now, SPOILERS )