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There were many sweet moments to compensate for the terrifying ones and it showed how closely I had bonded with the varied central characters with just how much I rooted for them all in equal measure. A happy ending could never be guaranteed for all and bittersweet and mixed emotions dogged me for much of this. The ending had me hoping for a little more but was still a satisfactory conclusion to a stellar story. My apologies if I sound unduly severe, but actual 'reading' is still difficult for me due to my eyesight problems, and I rely heavily on an audiobook narrator to provide a fair interpretation of the author's intentions when reading me her or his story. Unnecessary dramatics and inconsistent vocal characterisations do nothing for an author's artistic objectives and even less for an attentive listener. A marvelously creepy thrill ride of a book that keeps twisting until the very end.” —Karen M. McManus, #1 New York Times bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying I tried this on multiple devices and platforms and the speech text was so blurry it was very difficult to read. Even zooming in just made it pixelated rather than clear.

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The Best Sitcoms on Netflix Right Now (October 2023) By Garrett Martin and Paste Staff October 20, 2023 | 12:00pm DNF’d due to the narrator. The story isn’t gripping enough to drive me to read it though - hard to tell how much of that is Tracy Clark’s writing and how much lands on the narrator. I really enjoyed this story. There were definitely a lot of twists that I wasn't expecting! And even the ones that I was expecting were so well done that it didn't feel predictable.If you read much YA fiction, you’ve probably come across author Kiersten White before, either from her And I Darken trilogy, a gender-bent retelling of the life of Vlad the Impaler, to her Camelot Rising series, which puts a more feminist spin on the story of Arthur and Guinevere. (And don’t sleep on the Bram Stoker Award-winning Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein!) Other novels include Mooncranker's Gift (1973) (winner of the Heinemann Award), Stone Virgin (1985), and Losing Nelson (1999). He counts William Faulkner, Eudora Welty and Carson McCullers as his major influences. Her new captain pairs her with an “old-fashioned” cop, and the two immediately pull a case of a young, re-haired woman brutally murdered. Her new partner is abrasive and insensitive, and the two really are not a good fit together, though he does find some leads in the case. It's taken me a long time to come to grips with how I feel about this book. I liked a couple things and I really disliked some things. Unfortunately, the bad override the good. I enjoyed this book, but found the resolution to the case not satisfying, as it did not feel not earned. The murderer experiences a break with reality at the end, and it felt like a too swift and easy wrap-up to what till then had been a compelling story.

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The not knowing was sort of like when you first started watching Lost and you knew something was in the jungle, but you could never tell what it is. I liked that, but eventually as you discover the truth behind the park, it could have gone deeper into those elements. Barry Unsworth’s novels fall into two categories: the historical novels which start with Pascali’s Island and include Sacred Hunger and the early novels which are shorter pieces, focusing on vulnerable individuals exploited by other amoral types. The Hide falls very much into this latter category. Set on a dilapidated and neglected country estate the story is told through the words of two flawed people, the reclusive voyeur Simon, sister of the house’s owner and the simple gardener Josh, who hero worships the ruthlessly amoral Mortimer, whom he imagines is his friend.A high-stakes hide-and-seek competition in an abandoned amusement park comes to life in this graphic novel thriller. Should the contestants hide individually? Form alliances? Something sinister was definitely occurring. Heavy footsteps at a slow deliberate pace...the distant scream of rusted metal... I had been eagerly awaiting this book, and unfortunately for me, it was not the book I was expecting. This novel will have widespread appeal, but it employs a genre/trope that I don't like and so I was disappointed once I got midway through and figured out what was going on. Spoilers (but not major ones) below: I’ll be honest, I’ve never read the source material/book that this graphic novel is based on. I probably won’t considering I read this and now know exactly what happens. It reminded me a little bit of the tv show Haven, with the whole cycle thing. The atmosphere in the abandoned theme park was creepy as hell, and I thought the slow reveal of the baddie was well done for ultimate tension.