Book Stuff: A week in December by Sebastian Faulks

On Friday I finished reading 'A week in December' by Sebastian Faulks, and it was a long hard slog of a read! Ever since I read the back of this book in a shop a few years ago I've been interested to read it, so I feel really let down by how much of a disappointment it turned out to be. A week in December is a book that follows the lives of multiple characters during a week in December whose paths kind of cross at various times in the story. With this book, the same thing happened to me that I get with other books that focus on lots of different characters, I just couldn't get any empathy or interest in the characters going for me. I would find one character would peak my curiosity only for the next chapter to move on to somebody else, and by the time it came back around to the person I had been interested in I just didn't really care anymore. It felt like we got so much day to day detail about the characters but none of their emotion and the story just kind of fell flat on me, I found myself having to force myself to read chapters of this book and counting down the pages till the end of the book. The idea of the story, all these characters living slightly disconnected from other people against the back drop of the fact that they all travel on a London transport line that is constantly connected in a loop was a great setting, but the actual product just didn't live up to it's potential for me.