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Lost Girls and Love Hotels by Catherine Hanrahan

jason_pym's review against another edition

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2.0

Pace way too slow, occasionally uses second person (for no clear reason) and hackneyed expressions ("eyes like pissholes in the snow" etc). But... This would have made a great short story, or a great opening to a novel that went somewhere. The missing girl, the Yakuza boyfriend, felt like a story waiting to happen.

laurallie's review

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dark slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

annecarts's review against another edition

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2.0

This could have been so good. The blurb on the cover promised the story of a missing girl setting off a chain of events. But she's barely mentioned twice in the book.

The plot is minimal and it doesn't flow. Sorry, great idea, great promise but sadly doesn't deliver.

nicmacc's review

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3.0

Liked this book but it left me wanting more ... I wanted to know more about her past and wanted to see her have more "adventures " in Japan. A light read would be good on a plane!

mousecroghan's review

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2.0



Really not that we'll written, interesting, absorbing and rather lame.

sarah_mcmullan_nz's review

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3.0

It's not terribly well written, but it's engaging with characters that resonate. A smarter, sexier, darker 50 Shades in that it may entice people to dabble in non vanilla sex; it doesn't completely eschew the consequences of not knowing your partners very well.
The film is going to make this very popular. Great to see the writer doing the screenplay.

s4ufos's review

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3.0

I hadn’t heard of this book until I saw the movie trailer. It instantly caught my attention and made me want to read this.

I don’t know if I’ll read it again. For me, I had some difficulty in some sections. While entertaining, I was a bit confused by Margret’s relationship with Kazu. It seemed that a few dates turned to love.

All in all though, it was a good book that was worth reading at least once.

dudatb's review

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dark inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.25

halesware38's review

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2.0

I wanted to love this more than I did. It fell really flat for me in all aspects.