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gondorsfinest 's review for:
The Chain
by Adrian McKinty
I was fully prepared to give this book five stars. The first part of the narrative captured me more than the second - I found the psychology of victims and perpetrators intertwining much more interesting than the cliché chasing-down-the-bad-guys storyline. But still, I‘d have given it five stars for originality.
But then, the last fifty pages happened. Instead of a climax of manipulation and outsmarting each other, we got a shootout, explosions, fire and the only stakes were „who can shoot faster“. Meh. I was a bit bored and annoyed.
But then, the last fifteen pages happened.
The public is just super okay with hundreds of people kidnapping kids around the tri-state-area? Nobody is being hypocritical and calling the chain victims names on social media? Nobody cries „If it’s happened to your own kid, how COULD YOU“ in indignation? Come on, Adrian. I thought you understood how people work. Nobody can imagine a „good“, regular neighbor doing this until they’re in those shoes themselves. There’s no way this would just blow over and there’d be no judicial consequences.
Besides that, every previous problems just disappeared into a cloud of glitter and white doves. Rachel is having a baby? WTF WOMAN? YOU HAD CANCER TWO MINUTES AGO.
Kylie was wetting the bed every night after she was imprisoned in a basement with Harry Potter books and cookies - and then she shoots a guy in the face and is perfectly fine and happy and stable?
Come on. I mean - come on.
This book gripped me and intrigued me and then really let me down by the end.
But then, the last fifty pages happened. Instead of a climax of manipulation and outsmarting each other, we got a shootout, explosions, fire and the only stakes were „who can shoot faster“. Meh. I was a bit bored and annoyed.
But then, the last fifteen pages happened.
The public is just super okay with hundreds of people kidnapping kids around the tri-state-area? Nobody is being hypocritical and calling the chain victims names on social media? Nobody cries „If it’s happened to your own kid, how COULD YOU“ in indignation? Come on, Adrian. I thought you understood how people work. Nobody can imagine a „good“, regular neighbor doing this until they’re in those shoes themselves. There’s no way this would just blow over and there’d be no judicial consequences.
Besides that, every previous problems just disappeared into a cloud of glitter and white doves. Rachel is having a baby? WTF WOMAN? YOU HAD CANCER TWO MINUTES AGO.
Kylie was wetting the bed every night after she was imprisoned in a basement with Harry Potter books and cookies - and then she shoots a guy in the face and is perfectly fine and happy and stable?
Come on. I mean - come on.
This book gripped me and intrigued me and then really let me down by the end.