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Ladataan... Whisper Down the Lane: A Novel (alkuperäinen julkaisuvuosi 2021; vuoden 2021 painos)Tekijä: Clay Chapman (Tekijä)
TeostiedotWhisper Down the Lane (tekijä: Clay Chapman) (2021)
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. Twisty! ( ) Whisper Down The Lane was inspired by the Satanic Panic and the McMartin preschool trials, which was something I wasn't familiar with, so it gets bonus points from me because I got to learn something new. The characters were really well written and I loved the fact that there was an unreliable narrator. I also liked how the story switched perspectives from Sean in the '80s and Richard in 2013. It was interesting to see how the perspectives fit together as the story progressed. I was born after the Satanic Panic of the 80s, but growing up in the 90s-00s with super religious parents I feel like I still caught the tail end of it. It was nothing like the outright fear and terrifying public bandwagon action of what's in this book, but while reading I did get flashbacks to misplaced apprehension from my own childhood. The novel alternates between two timelines: the 80s with a young protagonist named Sean, and then thirty years later with an adult protagonist named Richard. Each storyline is compelling on its own, but when they start to overlap and the threads become more clear the book really hits another level of awesomeness. The first half is unsettling, but the pace really picks up in the second half and I white-knuckled it to the climatic ending. Each character is also very well-constructed. I really felt for Sean's predicament. It's hard to believe something like what he did could happen (an innocent fib turning into a spiraling web of lies, ending with massive public outcry and a shocking suicide), but the book is based on a true story. I also really felt Richard's increasing anxiety, as his world crumbles around him. I haven't read many books that epitomize paranoia as well as this one. There are elements of the supernatural here - and with Richard's splintering reality it's harder to tell as he becomes more of an unreliable narrator - but this story focuses more on the "panic" and less on the "satan" of Satanic Panic. It's a fractured tale of dishonesty and terror, and it's sure to please fans of horror, thrillers, and true crime! Starting out, this book held promise of creepiness, with disemboweled animals and references to satanic panic, I was excited. However, it soon lost steam, dragging its way through until a whirlwind conclusion that was ambiguous and required some rereading to ensure I hadn’t missed anything. The characters lacked depth and personality, the backstory was exhausting and redundant, and the entire story just left me bored and anxious to finish. Not to mention, it all seemed highly improbable, even if some of the story was a regurgitation of real events from the 1980s, it still seemed a stretch in a lot of ways. While I didn’t care for the way the story played out, the writer was able to keep my interest enough, even if it was just to see if the book got better, and I believe could create something better with a little more finesse. I received an advanced copy of this book from the publisher. The opinions are my own. ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
Fiction.
Horror.
Literature.
Thriller.
HTML:??A diabolically creepy hybrid of horror and psychological suspense that thrills as much as it unsettles. You??ll keep turning the pages even as your hands shake.???Riley Sager, New York Times best-selling author of Home Before Dark A pulse-pounding, true-crime-based horror novel inspired by the McMartin preschool trial and Satanic Panic of the ??80s. Richard doesn??t have a past. For him, there is only the present: a new marriage, a first chance at fatherhood, and a quiet life as an art teacher in Virginia. Then the body of a ritualistically murdered rabbit appears on his school??s playground, along with a birthday card for him. But Richard hasn??t celebrated his birthday since he was known as Sean . . . In the 1980s, Sean was five years old when his mother unwittingly led him to tell a lie about his teacher. When school administrators, cops, and therapists questioned him, he told another. And another. And another. Each was more outlandish than the last??and fueled a moral panic that engulfed the nation and destroyed the lives of everyone around him. Now, thirty years later, someone is here to tell Richard that they know what Sean did. But who would even know that these two are one and the same? Whisper Down the Lane is a tense and compulsively readable exploration of a world primed by paranoia t Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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