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3.65 AVERAGE
3.65 AVERAGE
This book was very exciting, fast-paced, and thrilling. I wasn’t sure if I would like it at the beginning, but it really picked up the pace and I couldn’t put it down. The ending is very satisfying, and there were a good number of plot twists that I didn’t exactly see coming, but they weren’t always totally surprising. I was really rooting for Jess through all of it, although there were times when I wondered if I should. I was suspicious of everyone at one point or another, and that made the book really interesting.
ugh just awful, too long and unnecessarily complicated, this Gone Girl era has become ridiculous.
An intriguing and well paced thriller. Some twists I anticipated, but there were enough surprises to keep me pulled in. The characters are well explored, with Dr Shields being wonderfully creepy (perhaps this could have been pushed even more, but perhaps that's my horror-craving self speaking). Overall enjoyable read.
I knew from previous reading experiences that I'm not a fan of first person narratives in the present tense ("I stare at my final line. I wonder if I sound whiny."). This book, however, made me realise there is something even more annoying: a second person narrative in the present tense combined with passive sentences intended to avoid the use of 'I' ("The text you sent earlier this month is retrieved on my phone and shown to Noah."). Yuck.
Apart from the writing, which is really bad, the storyline is also completely unbelievable and the characters are flat and uninteresting. This just goes to show that rave reviews and enthusiastic blurbs sometimes don't mean anything. If this really was on the 'Best Books of January 2019' list, what a sorry month that must have been.
Apart from the writing, which is really bad, the storyline is also completely unbelievable and the characters are flat and uninteresting. This just goes to show that rave reviews and enthusiastic blurbs sometimes don't mean anything. If this really was on the 'Best Books of January 2019' list, what a sorry month that must have been.
Wow. Read this in one sitting. Yikes what a twisty mind blower!
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Devoured this book. Fast paced and left me on the edge of my seat.
The passive voice from Dr. Shields’ POV became a bit much for me after a while. I was on the fence with the plot until about halfway through, then I was hooked :) Different from a usual mystery book in that there were so few characters, but it still kept me wondering what was going on. I enjoyed!
This book asks questions about morality and how you feel about the questions asked of the subject. How far would you go to help others especially family? Twists and turns galore. The ending was just ok for me hence 4 instead of 5 stars because the rest of the book was great!
3.5 stars rounded down. So this book is split into three parts, though I’m not sure why cause it’s all one continuous timeline and all parts flip back and forth from two points of view.
The fist two parts are so good, I read them in a day. I thought I was going for a full on five star review. The last part draaaaaagged. It felt meandering, and it wasn’t that interesting. A quote from People Magazine on the back says “you won’t see the final twist coming”. It’s the next day and I still
don’t know what they are talking about. There were no twists. I was not surprised by anything…and I don’t even mean to suggest that I’m so brilliant I figured it all out. No, there just wasn’t really anything to figure out.
So what we have here is Jess, a young makeup artist in New York. She’s had her share of trials and tribulations in her life. She has a penchant for one night stands and carries a few secrets.
Jess finds herself in a study at NYU with a mysterious psych professor. She’s brought into a room all alone and begins to answer questions one by one on a computer screen. The questions get more and more personal. Suddenly Jess is enmeshed in a “new study” where she is the only subject. The mysterious professor reveals herself and lavishes gifts on Jess. She starts asking Jess to participate in “real life experiments”. Jess reveals so much of herself to the professor, but what is the professor after?
And then Part 3 hits and it’s just so lackluster. What a disappointment.
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The fist two parts are so good, I read them in a day. I thought I was going for a full on five star review. The last part draaaaaagged. It felt meandering, and it wasn’t that interesting. A quote from People Magazine on the back says “you won’t see the final twist coming”. It’s the next day and I still
don’t know what they are talking about. There were no twists. I was not surprised by anything…and I don’t even mean to suggest that I’m so brilliant I figured it all out. No, there just wasn’t really anything to figure out.
So what we have here is Jess, a young makeup artist in New York. She’s had her share of trials and tribulations in her life. She has a penchant for one night stands and carries a few secrets.
Jess finds herself in a study at NYU with a mysterious psych professor. She’s brought into a room all alone and begins to answer questions one by one on a computer screen. The questions get more and more personal. Suddenly Jess is enmeshed in a “new study” where she is the only subject. The mysterious professor reveals herself and lavishes gifts on Jess. She starts asking Jess to participate in “real life experiments”. Jess reveals so much of herself to the professor, but what is the professor after?
And then Part 3 hits and it’s just so lackluster. What a disappointment.
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