Welcome to Litsy!

Winner of the 2019 Dead good reads in the category of “Cancel all plans award for the book you can‘t put down”. And it certainly is unputdownable. A crazy rollercoaster of a read with hard to believe characters and scenarios but I didn‘t care. It flew off the pages and I ate it up. Very very satisfying.

It was very hard to feel any sort of kinship with Delia. Her manner, and the way she treated others was really quite appalling. There was really nothing likable about her at all. Having said that, I liked the way the story evolved from the fact of there being a dead body in the flat to all the events leading up to that point. There were a couple of curve balls and surprises but actually, I was just glad to be finished at the end.

Liz Nugent‘s psychological thriller is a shallow, blank affair that wastes an intriguing opening to follow the life story of the vapid, self-absorbed protagonist who lacks wit, intelligence or self-awareness and whose beauty means that others project onto her, which she tries to use for her own ends and ultimately fails. There‘s no tension, I didn‘t care about Delia and frankly the story bored me so the downbeat ending left me very blah.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book and wrote about it on my website under the title “A woman to blame”: https://www.artkavanagh.ie/skin-deep.html Yet, I was surprised to discover, while getting books ready to go to the charity shop, that I never expect to read it again. The same is not true of Nugent‘s previous two books, both of which I‘ll reread at some point.

very much enjoyed this & Liz Nugent can have all my book 💰 whenever she puts out a new one. Delia Russell is terrifying & not even remotely fit to be around people. this is a propulsive character study that i didn't want to put down.

"'being agreeable does not suit everyone. People who go through life smiling miss out on the dignity of sorrow'"

This really struck a chord with me, maybe because I'm not the smiling always happy type. In fact, people like that confuse me.

Might as well start a new week with a new book from my tbr

This is really quite the page turner! It‘s almost like a fable, a sinister one at that with a wicked fairy as the main character. Liz Nugent has created a brilliantly complex and off the wall character in Delia Russell. A dark and gripping tale with some twists and turns. The ending is just fantastic and unexpected! A fascinating, imaginatively written and well plotted story which hooked me in from start to finish. Highly recommended.

“I knew that I wasn‘t normal. I have never needed people, just the comforts they could offer me.” Irish Times review (Declan Hughes) here: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/skin-deep-review-dark-monster-of-a-book...

Don‘t think I‘m going to get to this, unfortunately.

What a read. I read it in 2 sittings. I abandoned the housework and I think my kids too 🙈 one heck of a book! #netgalleyreads #irishwriters

If you like dark and twisty, psychological tales, then this is for you. Liz Nugent has created an amazingly memorable character. You might not like Cordelia Russell, and all the things she does, but you won't forget her! Really compelling. It starts with a body in a hotel bedroom in France, then we go back in time to 1975 to a tiny island off the coast of Ireland, and follow the events from there. Daisy approved. #dogsoflitsy

This is an Irish term I use and have heard used a lot, but never seen it written down before and had no idea how it was spelt! Funny that. Pronounced "crater" (where I'm from anyway) #irishauthors

Really excited to read this ARC. Read a couple of her books recently, and they were so good! Very twisty. This one sounds really interesting.

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Wow! This book isn't even out yet and it has a 4 billion star rating on Goodreads! 😂🤣😂

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