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3.59 AVERAGE
3.59 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
slow-paced
1.5/5 stars - This was one of those books that tried so hard to be mysterious that it twisted itself into an undoable knot, in a bad way. The story was so all over the place, and the voices were so childish, and all the characters got weirdly emotionally attached incredibly fast to be too unbelievable for me. I got lost with all the time shifts and location shifts and whether we were reading Wilder's fictionalized book of the events or Skye's autofiction memoir or the actual story, literally too many tangles for its own good. And how many times do we need to have the obvious "joke" about Wilder's name? I counted a solid 3 to 4, like okay we get it, "Wilder, like Thornton?" har har. Not for me.
WOOOOOOOOOOOAH. This book took me for a ride! Looking Glass Sound was unpredictable and haunting. It was impossible to be sure what was real at any point during the story. Definitely read this book if you are into mystery, horror, and psychological thrillers!
Best book I read this year. On the surface a Stephen-King-like coming-of-age story about teens having an idyllic summer in an East Coast vacation town where there is also a creep who takes pictures of sleeping kids and some missing women. The narrative as it unravels is way more than that, about the nature of story telling and how it helps or hurts with processing trauma. So good, lots of twists. Appropriately summery but very dark.
Thank you to Tor Nightfire for providing me with this arc.
This was an absolute mindf*ck of a book. It was like four books in one and at no point did i ever know where it was going. I really though i’d figured it out. I did not. Any psychological thriller fan will love this.
This was an absolute mindf*ck of a book. It was like four books in one and at no point did i ever know where it was going. I really though i’d figured it out. I did not. Any psychological thriller fan will love this.
challenging
emotional
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
this was by far one of the most bizarre books i’ve ever read. i almost dnf multiple times, the story is so intentionally fragmented to build stories within stories. i think ultimately i enjoyed it, i loved the beginning with wilder and his pals living out summers on the beach, and part of me wishes that little part could live as a book on its own.
A book that is so confusing that it becomes irritating - Let me begin by saying I love [a:Catriona Ward|13801540|Catriona Ward|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1438105097p2/13801540.jpg] 's writing and her subject matter. She has her niche of writing confusing stories which would make you think twice - it is different and done with mastery. But when you make something soooo confusing that even after going through the story twice, your mind can't keep track - it becomes irritating at times. This book did to me what Tenet had done to my mind. Weren't the characters too immature?
3.5 stars for me. started off strong and then the layers of authors and books had me super confused. the ending clarified some but not all and i had to turn to the internet to help me decipher what I actually read. thought provoking for sure but wildly confusing.
medium-paced
Not for me. It does all kind of come together in the end but I’m still scratching my head and wondering…what did I just read?