A review by searchandrescueteam
What Happened to Nina? by Dervla McTiernan

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I hate blurbs on books that anticipate your response, and this one had “Everyone’s going to be talking about that ending”.  Yes - the end is an interesting twist.  However the book itself is even more tangled and engaging.  There is the plot-line, but it is the responses of the characters that kept me reading.  And each chapter is told by the various characters in turn - a nice device, like pulling together the pieces of a jigsaw, whilst sometimes seeing how they must come together but not knowing how they would.
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