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maybeillreadtoday 's review for:
Breathless
by Amy McCulloch
what a snooze! a botm flop!
when i heard it was a thriller about a hiking group i thought we were gonna get dyatlov pass meets uh slasher movie? idk exactly but whatever i was expecting this under-delivered ... it was just a whole lot of "where's the wifi" and waiting in tents and me realizing that mountain climbers are so unimpressive because the Sherpas do all the work for them (me typing this as if three flights of stairs doesn't totally take me out lmao at least im self aware of my own ineptitude)
the thriller aspects felt very ... flat and cold like the mountains they were hanging out on because even with the grand reveal it was a little like .... okay. and then there's this other guy and it's like well which villain am i supposed to care about more cos like neither of them are very compelling. I feel like a huge part of thrillers is an unreliable narrator and while the author makes mention (so many times) of like moountain sickness/hypoxia or whatever its a lot more of telling rather than showing. its like okay we know this can happen but so far this beginner mountain climber is totally good and not suffering from altitude sickness at all this whole time cos shes jus?? built different idk it just wasnt adding up and it just felt like it was missing a lot of components to make this an actually good book.
the random bits about her grandma were jus like sprinkled in for flavor i guess but it made it obvious that this book was just a fictionalization of the author's real experience. and while i think its great that the author was one of the youngest women to summit this particular mountain i don't think thats enough grounds to write and publish a compelling thriller -- or a book of any genre for that matter.
when i heard it was a thriller about a hiking group i thought we were gonna get dyatlov pass meets uh slasher movie? idk exactly but whatever i was expecting this under-delivered ... it was just a whole lot of "where's the wifi" and waiting in tents and me realizing that mountain climbers are so unimpressive because the Sherpas do all the work for them (me typing this as if three flights of stairs doesn't totally take me out lmao at least im self aware of my own ineptitude)
the thriller aspects felt very ... flat and cold like the mountains they were hanging out on because even with the grand reveal it was a little like .... okay. and then there's this other guy and it's like well which villain am i supposed to care about more cos like neither of them are very compelling. I feel like a huge part of thrillers is an unreliable narrator and while the author makes mention (so many times) of like moountain sickness/hypoxia or whatever its a lot more of telling rather than showing. its like okay we know this can happen but so far this beginner mountain climber is totally good and not suffering from altitude sickness at all this whole time cos shes jus?? built different idk it just wasnt adding up and it just felt like it was missing a lot of components to make this an actually good book.
the random bits about her grandma were jus like sprinkled in for flavor i guess but it made it obvious that this book was just a fictionalization of the author's real experience. and while i think its great that the author was one of the youngest women to summit this particular mountain i don't think thats enough grounds to write and publish a compelling thriller -- or a book of any genre for that matter.