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Spooky!

Revisado: 05-17-20

This story just happens to take place in a time where the Spanish Flu was raging. How spooky! The parallels to today's crisis are quite unbelievable, I think those details were even more riveting to me than the main story line! Great book. Thanks, Ms Thompson!

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Jumbled

Revisado: 10-19-19

Interesting book, but there was something about the structure that made it hard to follow.

It interlaced the history of NecroSearch, some high profile cases, and the personal history of some team members – to me, it just felt jumbled.

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Turning in Circles

Revisado: 09-20-19

It was an interesting story, I liked it well enough, but you REALLY have to suspend your disbelief if you want to enjoy it.

Without spoiling it too much: She wants to get away, but goes along with him because he has some damning information that might ruin her life…. so she doesn’t really want to get away…. but yet she plots her get-away.

I also figured out who the bad-guy was pretty early on, so the Big Reveal fell flat.

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What a tragic life

Revisado: 09-15-19

First thing’s first: this is not a story about Amy’s murder – all that takes place near the end of the book.

This a memoir of an abused woman who’s sister just happened to be murdered and I found it all very interesting; not least because it was a good lesson for me not to be so judgemental.

Her life feels like a train wreck; how (better yet, WHY) does she find and settle for so many losers! But just as I was criticizing her again for the umpteenth time, I realised that compassion for her plight might be a better approach to reading her story. It’s never just about “a bad relationship” but all your life experiences that lead you to it. The scene where she’s at her boyfriend’s place for a Thanksgiving dinner that goes downhill fast is such cautionary tale on many many levels!

She ends the book with a plea for women who recognize themselves in these pages to seek help. Although it was tragic, I felt the effort to share and help others by telling her story was poignant.

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The bad outweighed the good.

Revisado: 09-15-19

The story line from David’s POV was great. The rest was garbage. I hated it. Another reviewer was more eloquent in her review and said: “she handles the characters of David and young Eden with beauty and grace. The treatment of present day Eden, however, feels like it belongs in a completely different book of lesser quality.” That is bang on!

While David’s then-storyline was poignant, Eden’s now-storyline feels like Young Adult Fiction. To me, it felt written by a teenager who imagines what grown-ups must be like. ESPECIALLY the conversation between the two prostitutes on the benefits of removable teeth. What a farce! AS IF!

The entire book is all about her efforts to find her long lost father, so when near the end she declares she will give up if this “one last thing” it doesn’t work it’s so OBVIOUS that she will now definitely find him; far from a red herring, it’s a dead give-away.

To be fair, I don’t appreciate books that go on and on about romance and recipes, so I would never have appreciated those parts.

Overall, the bad parts outweighed the good parts and I was disappointed.

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It really kept me guessing

Revisado: 09-09-19

Was Lauren truly mad? Or was she the only sane character who could see something no one else could?

I put this book in my “sci-fi / paranormal / fantasy” category because I really didn’t know up until the very end in what direction the story was going.

A great page turner!

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Fascinating

Revisado: 09-05-19

What so impressed me about this book was the diary itself. I’m amazed.

When I kept a diary, it was a few disjointed sentences with no context or explanation – this woman wrote novellas with each entry! Just the time that must have taken blows me away.

The content is fascinating of course, well worth the read.

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50 / 50

Revisado: 08-24-19

I am having a love-hate relationship with this book.

I love the droll, witty, almost sarcastic tone of the book; it’s fantastic!… but the narration is on and off. Yes a dry English narrator is a perfect fit, but he pauses in weird places and sometimes all sentences feel like declarations.

I love all the touristy leads I am getting for my next trip to Germany… but there are so many and I am not retaining ANYTHING

ARGH! I think this is one of those books one must re-read multiple times to truly absorb.

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Not for me

Revisado: 08-20-19

Despite the fact that I finished it, I didn’t enjoy this book at all.

The more I read, the less I enjoyed it; the style just wasn’t for me. At first I wondered if it was because I completely forgot everything about Book 1, but after a while I just didn’t care either way. There wasn’t enough overall to excite me.

I found that there was WAY too much slogging through the characters thoughts as the events unfolded which slowed the pace to a crawl.

I did like the setting in Paris – that was redeeming!

If there are more books in the series, I’ll pass.

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Loved it!

Revisado: 08-18-19

Another “unreliable narrator” gripping psychological page-turner.

I found this book particularly captivating because I was never sure what would happen next and guessing the truth as I went along was a lot of fun!

The twists and turns had me hooked and while I did eventually guess the ending, figuring it out in advance didn’t ruin the experience.

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