FICKLE is a really intriguing read. Although told mostly through blog posts, Manus manages to deliver a really solid mystery that left me guessing every step of the way.

Well this was different to any kind of book I've read before in the way that it was told via a blog, 2 different ones actually. It had a very interesting storyline too.

I struggled in the beginning with the writing style but soon caught on and after that you get used to it, I thought it was a bit of a slow burner but in all a good read. A good who dunnit mystery, I don't want to say too much and spoil it for the others who read the book....I didn't quite know whether half the time the blogger was adding bits to make her blog more interesting or it did actually happen that way (if that's makes sense) but this all added to the enjoyment of the book....

I didn't like the ending as I still had questions left over unanswered but it left me certainly wanting more lol

Great read!

I did not finish this story. I could not engage with the characters or the story at all.

I was worried the format would be gimmicky but it totally worked--so suspenseful and perfectly executed.

n/a - did not finish as I could not enjoy the narrative style.

Like most other reviewers, I’m digging the way this was laid out. It’s set up as if we’re reading a blog, we get the post and then we get the comments too. It’s fun and informal. My only issue with the blogging aspect of this is that the characters type like idiots and occasionally use abbreviations I don’t understand.

There are a number of characters in this novel when you include all the blog family. Our main characters are Fickel, Mysterious Hottie and Burly Bear and I didn’t particularly like any of them. Fickel was too obnoxious and irritating to be likable and Mysterious Hottie was so ridiculously cliche a character, he was difficult to take seriously. Burly Bear was at least down to earth, but even that got on my nerves at times.

In terms of the plot, this was well thought out and very complex. One minute you’re thinking one thing and the next minute you’re slapped with a whole new idea you hadn’t even considered before. While it’s good that the author has so many ideas and can come up with so many new and exciting plot twists, it also makes the novel a bit hard to follow. I quite often found myself getting confused with what was going on and with who. The ending was, overall, disappointing. It left too many loose ends for me to be satisfied and it also didn’t quite make sense in my head. By the time everything was “concluded”, I wasn’t actually sure what had happened.

Thanks to Netgalley and Diversion Books for giving me the opportunity to read this in exchange for an honest review.