I just finished reading You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz. This novel tells the story of Grace Reinhart Sachs, a therapist and the author of a book in which she encourages women to trust their instincts and first impressions of the men in their lives. Grace believes that the signs of trouble in a marriage or relationship often reveal themselves early on. Grace leads a seemingly perfect life and has a wonderful marriage with a man she is madly in love with, but her life begins to unravel when a mother at her son's school is found brutally murdered.
I have to say that I found You Should Have Known to be very predictable and anticlimactic. Despite the fact that Korelitz is a beautiful writer, the story lacked a certain amount of depth necessary to captivate the reader and as a result I often found myself bored. I truly didn't find the characters interesting and although the story line had potential, I didn't feel that it was well executed overall.
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