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A review by adelaidemetzger_robotprophet
Looking Glass by Andrew Mayne
4.0
“Don’t think just because you survived one monster you’ll survive the next.”
--Looking Glass Chapter 24.
One of my favorite literary characters ever, Dr. Theo Cray, is BACK PEOPLE!!!
Oh my God, I love him so much! The man’s brilliant brain holds him back from understanding certain emotions in his personal life, but he has a huge heart for people who need his help and will hunt down the evil that law enforcement has no power over—even if it means putting himself in death’s way.
I feel like this second installment was a bit slower than the first book. I found myself losing some interest in several chapters during the very thorough investigation. I found most of the explanatory chapters very educational and interesting as they made me give credit to Andrew Mayne for his research and knowledge such as what the Fourier method is, but chapters like the one explaining how a face-tracker system functions had me skimming pass the info.
One thing that did not bore me while carefully stepping my way through this book was the creep factor. My skin crawled with every chapter as Theo quickly unveiled what kind of killer he was dealing with. While the first book deconstructed the murder mystery under the theme of nature and Animalia, this book takes a darker turn. Without giving away too much I will say it involves children and the occult. Theo comes face-to-face with a killer that is silent, agile, and even snake-like as opposed to his experience in the first book where the killer resembled a large, hungry bear.
I do feel that I didn’t get to see the killer as much in this book compared to the first installment. While Theo is forced into an epic life-or-death faceoff with Joe Vik in the climax of the previous book, in Looking Glass he simply tracks down the guy and briefly scrapes by him twice before the ending. That doesn’t mean the killer isn’t just as deadly, or that the stakes aren’t higher, but does make me hungry for a bit more action.
My gut reaction every time I finish one of these is “This would make an epic movie!” But the more I think on it I feel like pulling a very wise Ken Levine move and saying, “Well…only if they do it right.” In the hands of people like James Wan and Leigh Whannell it would probably be perfect in its own way of an adaptation, but in any other hands I’d have trust issues.
If you can get pass the extensive breakdown during the investigation portion of these books, you should definitely give them a try. They aren’t your everyday crime thrillers and Andrew Mayne is no penny-crime author.
Number three, please?
--Looking Glass Chapter 24.
One of my favorite literary characters ever, Dr. Theo Cray, is BACK PEOPLE!!!
Oh my God, I love him so much! The man’s brilliant brain holds him back from understanding certain emotions in his personal life, but he has a huge heart for people who need his help and will hunt down the evil that law enforcement has no power over—even if it means putting himself in death’s way.
I feel like this second installment was a bit slower than the first book. I found myself losing some interest in several chapters during the very thorough investigation. I found most of the explanatory chapters very educational and interesting as they made me give credit to Andrew Mayne for his research and knowledge such as what the Fourier method is, but chapters like the one explaining how a face-tracker system functions had me skimming pass the info.
One thing that did not bore me while carefully stepping my way through this book was the creep factor. My skin crawled with every chapter as Theo quickly unveiled what kind of killer he was dealing with. While the first book deconstructed the murder mystery under the theme of nature and Animalia, this book takes a darker turn. Without giving away too much I will say it involves children and the occult. Theo comes face-to-face with a killer that is silent, agile, and even snake-like as opposed to his experience in the first book where the killer resembled a large, hungry bear.
I do feel that I didn’t get to see the killer as much in this book compared to the first installment. While Theo is forced into an epic life-or-death faceoff with Joe Vik in the climax of the previous book, in Looking Glass he simply tracks down the guy and briefly scrapes by him twice before the ending. That doesn’t mean the killer isn’t just as deadly, or that the stakes aren’t higher, but does make me hungry for a bit more action.
My gut reaction every time I finish one of these is “This would make an epic movie!” But the more I think on it I feel like pulling a very wise Ken Levine move and saying, “Well…only if they do it right.” In the hands of people like James Wan and Leigh Whannell it would probably be perfect in its own way of an adaptation, but in any other hands I’d have trust issues.
If you can get pass the extensive breakdown during the investigation portion of these books, you should definitely give them a try. They aren’t your everyday crime thrillers and Andrew Mayne is no penny-crime author.
Number three, please?