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Two Little Girls in Blue by Mary Higgins Clark

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A história teria sido algo bastante banal não fosse pelo bom desenvolvimento das personagens e a presença de pequenas narrativas paralelas, concebidas sem quebrar o enredo principal. Mary Higgins Clark, tal como todos os bons escritores de romances policiais, sabe dar o devido valor às personagens, em vez de se centrar exclusivamente no mistério em si, permitindo ao leitor desenvolver feedback emocional com elas.

Usar kything (embora ela nunca o refira assim, é esse o nome que se dá à ligação telepática entre duas pessoas, normalmente irmãos, que lhes permite transmitir pensamentos e emoções um ao outro) na história foi um risco, pois doerá não agradar a todos os fãs do género, mas como foi feito de modo tão suave…

lilias's review against another edition

1.0

I was listening to a true crime podcast back in spring or summer of 2020 when the hosts referred to Mary Higgins Clark as something like the queen of suspense. That same title is featured on the cover of this book. I don’t remember what podcast it was, but I think it was one of the ones I’ve since stopped listening to. But at the time I had never heard of Mary Higgins Clark and thought I should give her a try since I love suspense (though I’d thought that the title of queen belonged to Agatha Christie, if anyone).

Eventually I bought this book in a drug store; I like to encourage all and any stores to sell books. And this summer I needed a quick and easy and fun book to read so I thought this would be perfect.

But this book? Is not fun. I don’t know if this is considered one of her better books, though I do believe it’s the exact one the podcast referenced, but I really expected something better from the queen. The writing is SO BAD I kept comparing it to the writing of a child and then correcting myself because children write better than this. It was not suspenseful though it was kind of shocking; just not in the way that was intended.

travelinkiki's review

3.0

This was my first Clark book. It was pretty light and quick reading. Entertaining for my long commute, but not something I would pick up otherwise. It's a pretty standard thriller.

One reason I'm not enthralled with the book is that the writing style was too much of telling the reader the thoughts of the characters instead of letting us infer them. It felt like the book was talking down to me at times.