Ghosted started out so strong and slowly turned into a tedious and uninteresting mess. In it, Sarah meets a wonderful man Eddie, and spends seven blissful days with him. When they part at the end of that time, she knows it's love and he agrees. But then he disappears, never answering her calls or efforts to reach out.
The premise is interesting enough, but what follows is a long and mostly pointless story that is equal parts boring and odd. When Eddie disappears, Sarah is certain that he loves her and would never ignore her unless something bad has happened. But instead of going to the police or just stopping by his place, she online stalks him and badgers his friends. But when she's close to an answer, she runs away instead.
This book is filled with so much irrelevant padding, including long and bland backstories of every single side character. Each is having their own crisis, which is described in excruciating detail. It doesn't help that everyone acts like loonies by being melodramatic and making mountains out of molehills. Every setting, every thought, every action, every visual is explained to us in excessive detail. If it can be said in one sentence, the author said it in five. At some point, I just started skimming through the paragraphs.
At its heart, this book just didn't know what it wants to be. Is it a domestic thriller about the disappearance of a man, or a romance about love overcoming odds, or a composite of separate stories about different people whose lives are loosely intertwined? Instead we end up with a dull, awkward, rambling pile. Yes, there is a twist, but I wasn't invested enough by that point to care. It's too bad such an intriguing premise turned into such a dud.
Readaroo Rating: 1 star
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