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While the Irish story was rather enchanting at the beginning, I found the main character, as the story developed, absolutely awful and was unable to engage with her. It’s hard to stay reading a detestable character. Towards the end one does find some empathy for her, but if only the writer had allowed the reader to have some empathy for her earlier. If only the writer herself had had some empathy for her character. She just abandoned her on an abandoned island after making her suffer and with no way to redeem herself.
A reader looks for some sort of resolution — that the protagonist redeems themselves or grows, evolves because of the experience.
The beginning was completely disjointed from the main story, it felt like a different story completely. I thought, from the opening page, I was reading a crime story, but then, almost immediately, it became a story of an Irish family on an island. And, as usual with Irish family stories, they became pretty messed up. There was no link threading through most of the rest until, nearing the end, it was quite obvious what was going to happen. What was meant to be a twist was a slight turn in the path.
I wondered at the use of first person point of view — it really didn’t add more to the story where it could have. It was just telling more of the same.
There were issues of “telling” rather than “showing” and some actions that were hard to believe. My first Nugent and I won’t be trying another.


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Skin Deep Liz Nugent 9781844883936 Books Reviews

There is much to keep the attention of the psychological thriller devotee, however to classify this book as anything other than literature does it a disservice. Broad and fine themes are explored in this haunting story of this woman's life, a woman who was defined by her gender and appearance and who tries very hard to work within those definitions even as the sands shift beneath her and having no perspective as to herself, her personal history and her choices. Scarlet O'Hara, she is not. Then again, if Scarlet O'Hara had grown up in this place and time, she would have probably been running a bar.
In the prologue, Delia steps over the corpse in her apartment and goes out to a party. This is the introduction to another one of Nugent’s psychopathic, cold-blooded main characters. The problem is that the reader has 340 pages to go before returning to this scene. Instead of the creepy suspense that permeates “Lying in Wait” and “Unraveling Olive,” we get saturated with the details of a troubled, but ultimately annoying woman. That’s not to say Nugent doesn’t give us some exciting scenes, particularly the early fire, but it’s essentially the last 30 pages that resonate, and the rest is soap opera and disappointing. I have recommended her first two forays into crime fiction to many friends, but this novel is not in the same category.
Utterly amazing. If you are the type of reader who writes ' The main character was such an awful person so I just lost interest," then this is not the book for you. If, however, human nature in all its gory glory, fascinates you, then this may be one of the best books you have ever read.
Liz Nugent has outdone herself with her latest amazing work, Skin Deep. Perhaps I should go back and remove a star from my rating of her previous novel, Lying in Wait, as it doesn't even compare to this one. I rarely give a 5-star rating.

What a picture of depravity and ugliness she weaves in the character of stunningly beautiful Delia Russell. The reader is quickly drawn into the story, particularly while learning details of Delia's sad childhood which contributed to her sociopathic personality.

I've noted a few reviewers were unhappy with Skin Deep's conclusion, but I believe it was most fitting....and a haunting example of poetic justice which the reader won't soon forget.
“I wondered when Rigor Mortis would set in, or if it already had.”

This is the opening line of Liz Nugent’s third novel. As always, her opening lines are meant to shock us, and pull us right into the story...

Having enjoyed “Unraveling Oliver” (a strong 4 stars for me) and Lying In Wait (a 5 star favorite, this year), I decided that for Christmas, I would order a copy of this book, which was released in Ireland and the U.K. this April, because I just did not want to wait for the U.S. release...

Unfortunately, her third effort was not nearly as strong for me.

Born on the Island of Inishcrann, Delia is beloved by her father, and told she will grow up to be Queen of the Island. It’s a land rich with folklore, but poor in many other ways. The residents are few, and there are not enough women, for every man born there, to have a wife.

The novel is sprinkled with the legends that the residents believe in.

But, fate would take Delia to the mainland when she is just a beautiful, young girl, away from her father, perhaps the only person she ever felt love for. And, away from the sea, to which she is drawn, and always yearns to return to.

Delia is incapable of bonding with others, but she will find that she can coexist with those who can provide her with something she wants.

Like “Unraveling Oliver”, this is a character study, but unlike her first, this book does not alternate between each character’s perspective, though at about the 50% mark, you will be sporadically offered a “one chapter” observation from someone who has been a part of her life.

I found that I prefer when Ms. Nugent writes from the alternating perspectives of her characters, as she did in her first two novels....the pace being much faster when she does.

Again, she delivers a dark novel, which I am sure will please many of her fans, more than it did me, though I will still be eagerly watching for her next release.
While the Irish story was rather enchanting at the beginning, I found the main character, as the story developed, absolutely awful and was unable to engage with her. It’s hard to stay reading a detestable character. Towards the end one does find some empathy for her, but if only the writer had allowed the reader to have some empathy for her earlier. If only the writer herself had had some empathy for her character. She just abandoned her on an abandoned island after making her suffer and with no way to redeem herself.
A reader looks for some sort of resolution — that the protagonist redeems themselves or grows, evolves because of the experience.
The beginning was completely disjointed from the main story, it felt like a different story completely. I thought, from the opening page, I was reading a crime story, but then, almost immediately, it became a story of an Irish family on an island. And, as usual with Irish family stories, they became pretty messed up. There was no link threading through most of the rest until, nearing the end, it was quite obvious what was going to happen. What was meant to be a twist was a slight turn in the path.
I wondered at the use of first person point of view — it really didn’t add more to the story where it could have. It was just telling more of the same.
There were issues of “telling” rather than “showing” and some actions that were hard to believe. My first Nugent and I won’t be trying another.