I liked the first two chapters, the author is good as setting the scene, I’ll give her that. I don’t get why it’s classified as a « thriller » because the disapearance happends quite early in the book and there is no evolution of the case outside the main character’s mind. At some point the character breaks the fourth wall for no reason, and goes into all sorts of rambling. In the end it’s a « it was all in her head, she is schizophrenic » and as much as I could see it coming it was such a let down…
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Waiter Rant by Steve Dublanica
According to The Waiter, eighty percent of customers are nice people just looking for something to eat. The remaining twenty …
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Waiter Rant by Steve Dublanica
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Victoria Sees It by Carrie Jenkins
Victoria is unraveling. Her best friend is missing, and she's the only one who seems to care: there are clues …
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Victoria is unraveling. Her best friend is missing, and she's the only one who seems …
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Victoria Sees It by Carrie Jenkins
Victoria is unraveling. Her best friend is missing, and she's the only one who seems to care: there are clues …
dumbreads finished reading Moral disorder by Margaret Atwood
"Margaret Atwood has frequently been cited as one of the foremost writers of our time. …
This was quite hard to follow. It’s a collection of short stories but all the chatacters intertwine, and I sometimes couldn’t figure out who was narrating. Yet I still finished it in a week so I guess it’s not all bad
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The Nation on No Map
A call for a radical transformation in the face of widespread crisis.
The Nation on No Map examines state …
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An American Radical : Political Prisoner In My Own Country by Susan Rosenberg
Susan Rosenberg was a political activist who served sixteen years in some of the worst maximum-security prisons in the United …
dumbreads wants to read City of Last Chances by Adrian Tchaikovsky (The Tyrant Philosophers, #1)
City of Last Chances by Adrian Tchaikovsky (The Tyrant Philosophers, #1)
Arthur C. Clarke winner and Sunday Times bestseller Adrian Tchaikovsky's triumphant return to fantasy with a darkly inventive portrait of …