Genres: Mystery, slice of life, covid-19 fiction, thriller, contemporary, romance
Rating: 2/5
Amazon did it better. And I'm not just saying that because Dove Cameron and Avan Jogia were the lead thespians.
56 Days after a man and a woman meet at their local grocery, mere days before Ireland's COVID-19 unofficial "lockdown" begins, a dead body is discovered in a new apartment complex. Pathology estimates decomposition to have started two weeks earlier.
How's that for a summary? Two sentences. Two measly sentences. Because there's a dead body. And maybe you want to guess who died: the man or the woman. Did I do it better than the real synopsis? Probably not. But I also don't feel like putting in the effort to make it better or make you want to read it, because I'd rather persuade you to watch the show. What it comes down to, in this book, is that the police detectives Lee and Karl have to figure out who died. And the story flashes back to what went on between the man and the woman.
Meanwhile, if you watch the show, every character has a side story and a back story. And it keeps you guessing on the identity of the body in the bathroom! Whereas I feel like the book made it incredibly, incredibly predictable. The show replaces the COVID-19 lockdown vibe with a higher-stakes sexier twisty-turny cat-and-mouse game between the man and the woman. Even the police detectives have more range than whatever this short book gave them.
Now go watch the show.
