This one was a book club pick, to be read and then when we got together we watched the movie. The book is a 700+ page meh fest. It’s not bad, perse, but it’s not good either. And frankly it’s supposed to be all suspenseful, but really isn’t because you know who killed Tess straight off. It’s no big shock at all. I really just didn’t care about any of the characters, and actively hated others. But it was readable and passed decent time while I was trapped in a boring hotel in the middle of nowhere Missussauga for a week.

The movie was even worse only because of the fact that I had just read the book so any tiny wee bit of suspense and thrill that might have been in the movie was obliterated. It was apparently nominated for Oscars, but I really have no idea why. The movie did, however, redeem itself and the book with it’s ending – an original bit that never happened in the book. So ya for that.

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