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Six Weeks to Live by Catherine McKenzie

"Attention getting simply because you have to find out "who dun it" but the characters were so one dimensional and the ever shifting narrator left me feeling frustrated and confused as to who's view I was looking through and why I should care. Entertaining for what it was but forgettable in the end."

2 Stars

Pros: It did catch my attention cause it's a suspense novel so of course you have to find out "who dun it." 

Cons: The identical twins/triplet thing was confusing/The constantly changing narrator was confusing as well, since none of the characters were fleshed out enough for me to remember who they were. 

Full Review: 

At a routine follow up appointment, Jennifer receives horrible news. She has an inoperable brain tumor and only has weeks to live. While she's sitting in her car, trying to process this horrible news, she sees lab results from her last annual physical and is puzzled by the frighteningly high level of lead in her blood. At this discovery she's convinced that the cancer is a side effect of lead poisoning and she's determined to find out who poisoned her. 

She, of course, immediately jumps to the conclusion that it's her former husband, who's been hounding her for months now for a divorce, so he can be with his new girlfriend, a woman he left her for after 20 years of marriage. Their daughters, a set of identical twins and a fraternal twin try to help their mother and at times even try to help her piece together a timeline of when she may have been poisoned. 

And as they dig deeper into their parents lives, they also start to remember things from their own past. Things that happened to them as children, that at the time, didn't seem like much but now, as adults, they realize that something is very off. Unfortunate events come to light and even as Jennifer's state begins to deteriorate she has to decide whether to try and right the wrongs she committed and have peace when she dies, or if she should try and get to the bottom of who may have poisoned her. 

It was suspenseful, in its own right. You were hooked from the beginning because there was no sugar coating the fact that Jennifer was dying and had only a limited amount of time with which to "investigate" her poisoning. It was all explained in the end, which I appreciated but at the same time, none of the characters, from Jennifer to her daughters, to Jake, the lacks Husband, were really fleshed out enough for me to differentiate between them. The constantly changing narrator, from Jennifer, to either twin (Aline/Miranda) to Emily, was confusing as all Hell. Near the end of the book I started being able to tell them apart but through most of the book it was a struggle. 

Yes, the ending was somewhat surprising and it leaves the reader to wonder, "What next" but at the same time, I'm not invested enough to care all that much. It was a quick, semi entertaining read, definitely a "beach" read, one that doesn't require much brain power and thus, easily forgettable. 

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