If you were a fan of S. J. Watson’s Before I Go to Sleep and were eagerly anticipating his second novel, I have disappointing news. Watson’s second novel titled Second Life is so boring that it will make you wish you had a second life ahead of you in which you’d finally forget the excruciating tedium of getting through this book.
In Second Life, the protagonist (whose name, as well as the names of the other characters I repressed the moment this horrible book was finally finished) is a woman who’s been doing nothing whatsoever for the past 14 years of her life. So she’s bored. And we get to witness her extreme boredom and the extraordinarily boring affair that comes out of the boredom for 450 very boring pages. And then there is a very weird and unconvincing ending that pretends to push the novel towards the mystery / thriller genre. The ending fails to do that because there is no mystery and no thrill whatsoever in this tedious book that I most wholeheartedly refuse to recommend to anybody I do not detest.
Author: S.J. Watson
Title: Second Life
My rating: 0 out of 10.
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