Review: Bonfire

Bonfire by Krysten Ritter
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

It's a murder mystery.

That's what this book is. It took the last few chapters to finally know what this book is. The problem is that the book figures out what it is in the last few chapters. The majority of this book is spent trying to figure out what is this story. Is a mystery, a thriller, a romance, a detective story, conspiracy story, woman trying to reconnect with her past, environmental story, law procedural, single white female falling for single dad reformed bad boy with a heart of gold hidden behind years of shame story. It doesn't know what it is until the end. But by then there are so many loose plot threads that it cannot pull them all together. It wants to makes sense of everything that came before it but it cannot because there are too many threads that are just ignored. The middle drags a bit but that wasn't too bad. The lead character was confused about where to go next at the end. I understand why after reading this story. I think the author will do better next time but for a first book this was all over the place. This could make a decent hour and a half movie on Lifetime but there would have to be a lot of streamlining done this story.

I read this book via NetGalley. I thank them for this book.

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