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The Accident
by Chris Pavone
This review was originally published to Bookish Ardour.
It’s sad, but true; sometimes I’m going to struggle to enjoy a story. As much as I wanted the opposite I struggled with The Accident. The beginning grabbed me, but by the time the story hit the flow of the first chapter it had begun to slowly lose me.
Being an aspiring author means I’m naturally curious about stories based in the publishing world and the idea of such a mind-blowing, dangerous, manuscript ripping lives apart and involving hard-hitting government agencies piqued my curiosity. Except I couldn’t quite buy the notion once I had begun reading. The idea of a worldwide manhunt to destroy evidence from one supposed autobiography came across as farfetched and I attribute this to not really knowing much about the media mogul the manuscript is incriminating.
Charlie Wolfe, the media mogul, is a face for any overly rich, powerful, and ambitious business man. You don’t really get to know him, even though more and more is shared about him. He isn’t necessarily there to drive the story, he is the pin to hold all the threads together and eventually that’s all. I think being able to know more about Charlie Wolfe to begin with, a deep-seated fear or desire, would have helped to connect me more and created a way for me to understand the dire need for what takes place.
I personally didn’t care for any of the characters. They confused me sometimes. Isabel, the literary agent, goes from being a literary agent and then ends up realising she needs to ditch her phone, be careful of bugs, and immediately adopts skills in subterfuge to hide her whereabouts. I didn’t really see that coming, but I did guess at who the author was early on in the piece.
There was definitely far more detail than I would have liked, especially when it comes to a mystery/thriller. I ended up having to skim quite a large chunk of the writing to get through it and to keep up the pace I was hoping for. It’s funny though, I wanted to find out what happened at the end. There was definitely a hook there, making me need to know if the manuscript would survive, who would die, what would happen if the story was published, and how on Earth could they go about it.
All my questions were definitely answered by the end and I’m left with the newfound knowledge conspiracy and the publishing world together don’t cater to my tastes in fiction
It’s sad, but true; sometimes I’m going to struggle to enjoy a story. As much as I wanted the opposite I struggled with The Accident. The beginning grabbed me, but by the time the story hit the flow of the first chapter it had begun to slowly lose me.
Being an aspiring author means I’m naturally curious about stories based in the publishing world and the idea of such a mind-blowing, dangerous, manuscript ripping lives apart and involving hard-hitting government agencies piqued my curiosity. Except I couldn’t quite buy the notion once I had begun reading. The idea of a worldwide manhunt to destroy evidence from one supposed autobiography came across as farfetched and I attribute this to not really knowing much about the media mogul the manuscript is incriminating.
Charlie Wolfe, the media mogul, is a face for any overly rich, powerful, and ambitious business man. You don’t really get to know him, even though more and more is shared about him. He isn’t necessarily there to drive the story, he is the pin to hold all the threads together and eventually that’s all. I think being able to know more about Charlie Wolfe to begin with, a deep-seated fear or desire, would have helped to connect me more and created a way for me to understand the dire need for what takes place.
I personally didn’t care for any of the characters. They confused me sometimes. Isabel, the literary agent, goes from being a literary agent and then ends up realising she needs to ditch her phone, be careful of bugs, and immediately adopts skills in subterfuge to hide her whereabouts. I didn’t really see that coming, but I did guess at who the author was early on in the piece.
There was definitely far more detail than I would have liked, especially when it comes to a mystery/thriller. I ended up having to skim quite a large chunk of the writing to get through it and to keep up the pace I was hoping for. It’s funny though, I wanted to find out what happened at the end. There was definitely a hook there, making me need to know if the manuscript would survive, who would die, what would happen if the story was published, and how on Earth could they go about it.
All my questions were definitely answered by the end and I’m left with the newfound knowledge conspiracy and the publishing world together don’t cater to my tastes in fiction