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🔐💐📖BOOK REVIEW📖💐🔐

🥰Thank you so much to William Morrow for the gifted book!

📖Title: The Brair Club
✍️Author: Kate Quinn
📅Pub date: July 9, 2024

🔐This book started off SO WELL! It was basically a murder mystery from the first page and I was SO excited for how instantly drawn in I was. When a body is found in a women’s boarding home in 1954, you know it’s’ going to be a crazy story!

💐The book starts out during Thanksgiving of 1954 and then is told mostly in flashbacks. Each flashback chapter is centered around one of the characters in the home and all of those chapters are LONG! To give you an idea how long, the book is 430 pages and there are only 9 chapters! There are very short chapters in-between each long chapter called “interstitials”. Those chapters were definitely my favorite part because they revolved around story of the murdered woman in the house.

🔐Of all the character’s chapters, my favorites were Nora and Fliss. Nora’s chapter was incredibly well-written and I was CAPTIVATED the entire time. Since that was only chapter 2, I had extremely high hopes for the rest of the book. If that chapter was a stand-a-lone book (which it almost could be), I would rate it 5+ stars!

💐Unfortunately, most of the other character’s chapters dragged for me and I didn’t need 50ish pages on each one of them, especially when it didn’t always directly relate to the story I was most concerned with: the murder on Thanksgiving in 1954.

🔐I hate to complain about the length of a book since that’s something that is easily known going into reading a book, but in this case so much of the character’s background was just drawn out and could have been easily enjoyed had it been cut down to a 3oo page book.

💐I loved the concept, the setting, and a couple of the characters so much, but the format just didn’t end up working for me. Just because it didn’t work for me doesn’t it mean it won’t work for you you. I’m still going to read what she puts out next!

❓Do you like chapters to be long or short and why?