The Three-Day Affair. Michael Kardos (2013) - Plot & Excerpts
The Three-Day Affair by Michael Kardos:A good writer spins a mediocre tale. While relatively well told, the story is quite unrealistic, featuring four fictional Princeton University graduates without the collective intelligence to open a sandwich bag. The characters are trite and unappealing, and flashbacks to "Princeton days" appear to exist to assure the reader that the author did, indeed, himself attend Princeton. Plot twists at the conclusion are contrived and simplistic, but the book is well written and reads easily. Well... I finished! It was a short book but took me a while to get through because it was a tough one. The beginning was tough, I kinda, sorta got it, how it could all happen, in the beginning. But as the story moved forward it got frustrating! How pissed off were you at Jeffrey? Really? What a shitty friend! Right? And then further along he decides to NOT take the blame, what!? And then, the ending... how UN-satisfying was that?! Jeffrey was such an awful person- and to think his wife, Sarah, was also in on it! It was a tiny bit satisfying that it was Will that had the affair, but not enough to really stick it to Jeffrey. I will say I did like the part of the ending where Jeffrey tells Will he's just like the rest of them- a winner, driven. That was interesting since throughout the story he remembers his college days as being the oddball and also feeling less successful than his buddies. I didn't agree with the choices the main characters made along the way. There was a point there, in the middle of the story, where I think they could've just let her go!!! When they discovered that there was no one after them, that the girl's disappearance wasn't reported, she wasn't a minor and she lived alone, right there-- that's when they should've let her go! Just open the door and walk away. That would've been a good point to turn things around and no one would've got hurt. But, I guess that wouldn't have been as interesting a story.
What do You think about The Three-Day Affair. Michael Kardos (2013)?
definitely recommend this book! It was a fast read and had some interesting twists to the storyline.
—alicia
This was a better story than I expected. The ending completely surprised me.
—Andrear100
Tried to read it Feb 2014. Got bored 1/2 way thru
—priyanka
