You know within the first few pages of a book whether or not you are going to like a new-to-you author. Despite the present-tense narrative in this (I sooo do not like it), I really did like this author's writing.
The characters are all very well presented and real: some of them unpleasant and menacing, some endearing and others focussed and really rather smart. But all of them entertaining. The plot is well metered…Penny's parents decide to let their basement flat out to help with their bills but discover their new tenant is not entirely a model one. See About the book below.
I thoroughly enjoyed it, and it would have been worthy of the fully five stars but for the too many, and if I'm honest, unacceptable, mistaken use of the subject pronoun when the object pronoun should have been used. Too many 'for Martin and I' (as an example…it should be for Martin and me, of course): six instances in total. If the author misses these, the editor very definitely shouldn't.
That aside, Marshall has very definitely secured a place in my read-more-of list, if not for a very enjoyable book, for thanking her readers in her acknowledgements…always a special touch.
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