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Phantom Effect by Michael Aronovitz

mellabella's review against another edition

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1.0

I was so excited to read this book. I thought it would be a lot of things. Tense, scary, thrilling.
It started off good. Got weird, and then fizzled.
There was no part that was remotely scary. Except maybe the part where Marissa saw Jonathan breaking in.
Marissa (the victim/psychic) is an annoying character. Jonathan has an interesting back story as to how he came to be. But that's all kind of wasted by the fact that he doesn't experience what it was like to be stalked by himself. Unless I read the book the wrong way. It seems like he was in Marissa's head taking a stroll down memory lane instead. Or recounting events.
1.5 stars for a promising beginning.

grammarchick's review against another edition

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1.0

If there's one book you read this year... for the love of all that is good, don't let it be this one. I felt like I was taking acid and recovering from bad seafood all at once. A serial killer's car breaks down, but he manages to get it off the highway. The car crashes but he survives. Ok, seems like no big whoop. Then sh*t goes sideways and there's some kind of flashback/vision crap about spiders and neutering and the victim in his trunk is chasing him through a construction site. I decided this thing didn't deserve the rest of my Thursday night.
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