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This book is just fantastic and the audio narration by Graham Winton is truly fabulous. He has that knack of creating different voices for the (many!) different characters, and his basic narration voice is delightfully reminiscent of Rod Serling. [*Chef's kiss!*]
Mona was a fabulously kick-ass character, I loved her so much. The parts of the book that were not from Mona's POV were a little bit tedious, because I just wanted to get back to Mona. The cherry red Dodge Charger was a wonderful compani ...more
Mona was a fabulously kick-ass character, I loved her so much. The parts of the book that were not from Mona's POV were a little bit tedious, because I just wanted to get back to Mona. The cherry red Dodge Charger was a wonderful compani ...more
I quite enjoyed this one (4.5 out of 5) While I see that this book might not be everyone's cup of tea, I found it to be a book that kept me captivated through all 600+ pages. My book club selected this book from a list of books for "If you liked Stranger Things, you will like these books". At the beginning, The book reminded me of the TV show "Wayward Pines". Though there was suspension of disbelief involved in the story, I didn't find the book trying to be something that it wasn't.
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While it's not perfect, I have to give it 5 stars for quickly igniting the Gaiman Theory of Great Stories: “… and then what happened?”
If you like weird fiction, definitely check this out. Its mysteries are often more mysterious to the characters than the savvy reader, but glimpsing where things were going didn't dull my enjoyment at all. In fact, it had me marveling, "If we know all this at 30% in, what's going to happen NEXT?"
I'm definitely going to check out more of Bennett's work after this. ...more
If you like weird fiction, definitely check this out. Its mysteries are often more mysterious to the characters than the savvy reader, but glimpsing where things were going didn't dull my enjoyment at all. In fact, it had me marveling, "If we know all this at 30% in, what's going to happen NEXT?"
I'm definitely going to check out more of Bennett's work after this. ...more
I liked this very much, but it took a while for me to get into it, then finally complete it.
Nov 21, 2014
Nicole
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Nicole
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Christy Laub
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Val
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Amanda
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