They don't have to be good people or even likable, just people who feel fully formed. Someone I want to follow on a journey for a few hundred pages.
I know I need to check out Jones since you love him so much, and he does share a former last name with Felicia, hah!
I really do love his work but it's not for everyone. He has a unique writing style that some people say is confusing to them. It took me a bit to get use to his prose but I love him now.
Horror Movie sounds like it had potential...sorry it didn't live up to that.
That was the frustrating part. It should have been good. The idea is good, but the follow through is not.
The Housemaid should have been good with that plot...but if the characters were bad...definitely going to skip that one!
You might really like it. I know all my friends who read it did, it just didn't land well with me.
Just for example, there's a character who is like "My parents died in a plane crash and it was hard for me". That's it. That's all. That's the whole entire story about her parents. Whereas in Jones' book I'm reading now, in the first chapter the narrator tells these stories about his dad and their relationship. How he took his son with him to work sometimes and how they would make up silly lyrics to songs on the radio. Then he hits you with the reveal the dad died in a car accident recently and you want to cry for this kid you just met. It's not just a "Welp, he died and I was sad, the end". Now, knowing Jones' writing, at the end it might reveal the father was an abusive monster who makes his kid into a budding psycho but in that first chapter, you care. 🤣
