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The Fascination
by Essie Fox
I have never been story-edged so hard in my life.
This had so many moments to make it so good and everytime after a crumb of something that could have been, the story did a 180 and became dull again.
And then in the final pages the picks so fast, tossing all the crumbs together to make a lacklustre finale between the almost comicbookesque villians.
And then it doesn't end. The epilogue is 50 pages of finding all the loose threads and tying them together messily with the feeling 'ah yes, I said that.'
I picked this up because premise sounded really good. But it didn't even hold up to the title.
The fascination is not there, it barely goes past acquaintances storytelling wise. But characters sometimes act like they are eachother lifeline without anything to back it up. The actions of the characters didn't make a lick of sense.
I wish it explored the hinted clairvoyance of one of the characters more. I wish the fascination with medical oddities was much darker and intense instead of 'welp this is my grandfather's creepy basement' at the beginning of the book.
I have never been so frustrated in my life after reading a book.
This had so many moments to make it so good and everytime after a crumb of something that could have been, the story did a 180 and became dull again.
And then in the final pages the picks so fast, tossing all the crumbs together to make a lacklustre finale between the almost comicbookesque villians.
And then it doesn't end. The epilogue is 50 pages of finding all the loose threads and tying them together messily with the feeling 'ah yes, I said that.'
I picked this up because premise sounded really good. But it didn't even hold up to the title.
The fascination is not there, it barely goes past acquaintances storytelling wise. But characters sometimes act like they are eachother lifeline without anything to back it up. The actions of the characters didn't make a lick of sense.
I wish it explored the hinted clairvoyance of one of the characters more. I wish the fascination with medical oddities was much darker and intense instead of 'welp this is my grandfather's creepy basement' at the beginning of the book.
I have never been so frustrated in my life after reading a book.