The Man Who Didn't Call - Rosie Walsh

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Title: The Man Who Didn't Call (a.k.a. Ghosted)
Author: Rosie Walsh
Genre: Chick-lit
Rating: 3.5/5
# pages: 367
Date read: June, 2020

Imagine you meet a man, spend six glorious days together, and fall in love. And it’s mutual: you’ve never been so certain of anything.
So when he leaves for a long-booked holiday and promises to call from the airport, you have no cause to doubt him.

But he doesn’t call.

Your friends tell you to forget him, but you know they're wrong: something must have happened; there must be a reason for his silence.

What do you do when you finally discover you're right? That there is a reason -- and that reason is the one thing you didn't share with each other?
The truth.


A 3.5 star review. Rounded up on goodreads because I had a hard time putting it down once I got properly into it.

Not your usual chick-lit and with a twist that I had NOT guessed ahead of time and which made me flip back through the pages with a "Wait, what?!". Gotta love those unreliable narrators.

I mostly really, really liked it. I loved that Sarah had such a strong network when things seemed to fall apart around her. I loved that the gaping wide plotholes suddenly turned out to be foreshadowing instead. I loved that the plot turned out to have hidden depth to it.

But I closed the book with a feeling of melancholy... almost sorrow. Parts of it were desperately sad, and the happy ending didn't quite make up for what had come before. At the end of the day I liked it - but it wasn't the feel-good book I had expected.