It was a beautiful morning to enjoy book club and discuss “The Ghostwriter” by Alessandra Torre. The majority of us enjoyed this suspense fiction whose main character, Helena, is a romance novelist with cancer and only has 3 months to live. The characters were well developed and the author manages to successfully transition back and forth from various character’s viewpoints throughout the book. We all really liked Mark, the ghostwriter, who is hired to write Helena’s last book that reveals the secret she has been living with for the last 4 years. Simon, Helena’s husband, has a conniving, manipulative personality and we all felt that he married Helena as a cover for his pedophile obsession.
It is a sad story and we were all surprised by the twisted ending where Simon turns out to be a pedophile. There was a lot of emotional relationship turmoil throughout the book between the various characters. It was difficult to like Helena’s demanding and introverted character but as the plot unfolded, most of us felt sorry for her at the end of the book.
The average rating was 3.8 with a low of 2 and a high of 4.25.
The next meeting is July 6th at 10:00 am and we are reading “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” by Taylor Jenkins Reid
