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I really wanted to think this book was awesome. It's a solid mystery, but I don't like it nearly as much as I liked Special Topics in Calamity Physics. The main character was totally meh - and I'm over reading about old white dude's midlife crisis. Also a bit of the manic pixie dream girl happening up in here. That said, I loved the premise of Cordova, the reclusive horror film director, and ate up all of that. I thought the inclusion of screenshots, etc. would be irritating, but I really like h
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Started out strong with a very cool premise, and Pessl can do some things, like invoke a spooky atmosphere, very well. But about halfway through it's like she gave up - the plot got boring, the writing got sloppy, and the whole thing just collapsed. The work as a whole doesn't fulfill the promise of the beginning, when I thought I had just met my new favorite book.
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I loved this book at first, but around the halfway point I almost stopped reading it numerous times. I'm still not sure how the last half of this book got so bogged down and read so differently from the beginning.
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Dec 19, 2019
Monica St. Dennis
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A little too long; the ending wasn't great. I didn't find it particularly creepy, for the most part.
Bonus star for the cool format. ...more
Bonus star for the cool format. ...more
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