The Reading EXPERIENCE - Smooth or Choppy?

[Brantford]

Subplots and shifts in time as well as changing Points of View keeps the reader on their toes.

Did you ever find the book choppy or was it a smooth reading experience?

Who's Point of View did you enjoy the most?

[Laura]

I'm 120 pages in and I'm finding it choppy... It's not flowing for me the way I had hoped it would.

[Anna]

I also thought it was a bit choppy but it didn't really bother me. I think the payoff for this book really doesn't come until the end. Books with twists are like that. They make you re-analyze everything you have just finished reading and that can be sort of fun or at least a bit surprising. I liked the segments of the book from Alice's POV because I felt she was the only one who could tell us what really happened. Virgil's story was my least favourite because I found the whole "alcoholic ex-cop/private investigator" thing to be too cliche. Geez, is drinking too much a necessary pre-requisite for being a P.I.?

[Karen]

I agree Virgil was a stereotype. I enjoyed the pace and certainly all the new info. (Elephant info and character history) the author provides in each new chapter as it kept me reading ; I didn't want to put it down.