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Sep 06, 2013 Ellen rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: audio-book, thriller

The troubled 24 year old daughter of an enigmatic filmmaker Stanislas Cordova is found dead of an apparent suicide, and former reporter Scott McGrath is drawn into an investigation of her death and the elusive Cordova family. Along the way, he picks up two quirky assistants and together they go deeper and deeper into the underworld of the Cordovites, the cult of followers of Cordova's violent and terrifying body of work. The lines between reality and fiction are never quite clear in this book, u ...more

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Sep 06, 2013 Carlie Van Amerongen rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, 2015

Meh.

I liked the premise. A lot. But it was one of those books that left me wondering how awesome it would have been in the hands of a better storyteller, or if Marisha Pessl had been better edited. There was a LOT of exposition, and the language was so clunky it kept tearing me out of the story. I know what she was trying to do, but I feel like if I'm reading a book and the author lets me see what's behind the curtain too often, it's not worth my time. ...more

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Sep 29, 2013 Chelsea rated it really liked it · review of another edition

The three word review ...
Engaging. Dark. Inventive.

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Sep 30, 2013 Laurie rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2013

I loved this at first -- it is a very creepy page turning that kind of messes with your mind. I got a little impatient with it as it went on -- maybe it seemed a little too aware of its own cleverness? But a well done unique book.

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