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I'm just gonna go with my gut on this one and rate it five stars, despite the fact that I threw the book across the room when I was finished, then reconsidered and read the ending again and again, searching for more. My strong reaction after compulsively devouring the last 400 pages of this book in as short a time as possible (and actually waking up at 8am on the day I don't have to go to work just to finish it) means it deserves the praise. It deserves five stars just for the hallucinatory scen
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A perfect book? No. An excellent book? Yesyesyesyes! I LOVED this, but it's also just my cup of tea - mysterious, twisty, dark, occasionally confusing - more, please!
I read Pessl's well-reviewed Special Topics in Calamity Physics several years ago and was underwhelmed - so underwhelmed I can't even remember the plot of it. Reading a synopsis of this, I was intrigued, but not sure how Pessl would handle the execution. I'm thrilled to say that I thought she was largely successful, even with the en ...more
I read Pessl's well-reviewed Special Topics in Calamity Physics several years ago and was underwhelmed - so underwhelmed I can't even remember the plot of it. Reading a synopsis of this, I was intrigued, but not sure how Pessl would handle the execution. I'm thrilled to say that I thought she was largely successful, even with the en ...more
This is hard to talk about without talking about Special Topics in Calamity Physics, a debut book that I didn't love but thought was ambitious and certainly spelled promise for a young author.
This sophomore attempt is also ambitious, but maybe tips over into overly-ambitious category. I didn't think that the pay off was necessarily worth it and the complicated plot became muddled and slowed down the story in an unsatisfying way.
Part literary fiction, part mystery and thriller, The Night Film com ...more
This sophomore attempt is also ambitious, but maybe tips over into overly-ambitious category. I didn't think that the pay off was necessarily worth it and the complicated plot became muddled and slowed down the story in an unsatisfying way.
Part literary fiction, part mystery and thriller, The Night Film com ...more
I started off really liking this book - it started off as a 4 star book but by the end I think it only deserves 2 stars.
This book tries to do too much and it's not as well written as her first book. It's as if she took every stereotype, plot twist, hardboiled dialogue and characters from various crime novels and mixed in some of Gillian Flynn's twistedness.
Overall, not worth the 587 pages. ...more
This book tries to do too much and it's not as well written as her first book. It's as if she took every stereotype, plot twist, hardboiled dialogue and characters from various crime novels and mixed in some of Gillian Flynn's twistedness.
Overall, not worth the 587 pages. ...more
The three word review ...
Engaging. Dark. Inventive.
Engaging. Dark. Inventive.
Nov 02, 2014
Archi
added it
Dec 14, 2014
Erica
marked it as to-read
