I don’t know what else to say besides this was bad. Really bad. I wanted to like it since I did like the one lead, but the book just dragged on forever and I ceased to care about Cricket or Ruby. Towards the 80 percent mark I started to skim because I was just getting fed up at how boring and tedious the book had become. I think the book could have been stronger if we just followed Cricket honestly. Going back and forth between Cricket and Ruby and the timeline skipping days, weeks, months ahead just made me feel like the whole book was standing still.
“Deconstructed” follows Cricket Crosby who is hit for a loop when she realizes her husband of many years is cheating on her. Deciding to get even, she gets into a series (of not so hilarious) antics with her assistant Ruby and Ruby’s relatives.
I felt sorry for Cricket, but honestly the book just seesaws back and forth between her and Ruby that you don’t even get to sit in the moment and really get why she’s angry besides the whole husband cheating on her part. You have glimmers of her realizing that she and her husband have grown apart for many years and she didn’t even really like having sex with him anymore. Then the book tosses in some undercover stuff that I guess was to make us hate Cricket’s husband even more. At that point it was just gilding the lily so to speak.
Ruby felt fake throughout this book. I just got tired of her and her relatives.
The writing was technically correct, I just think that the book was boring. There are glimmers here and there when we have Cricket talking about her mother, her father and his new wife, etc. And honestly I am realizing that the book really only came alive when we were in Cricket’s chapters and her head so to speak. I thought the book would honestly be more about dress making than it was, it just felt like the book didn’t know if it was supposed to be a second chance romance, general fiction, chick-lit, etc.
The flow was awful. I think this may have taken place over a year? I don’t even know and refuse to look back to determine if I was correct or not.
The ending was so unrealistic I just shook my head.
