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A review by mnstaples4
Where You End by Abbott Kahler
3.0
This was not a thriller, but I’m not sure what it was. The plot and pacing and tone were so at odds for each other. I kept waiting for it to turn into SOMETHING that made sense, a dark fantastic witch coven or a mad scientist’s insane experiment or some sort of cyberpunk alternative 1980s grungy noir.
And don’t say “inspired by true events” if you’re not going to expand upon that at all. What was true? The amnesia, the mirror twins, the New Age child p*rn sex cult?
Looking back with the knowledge that we have at the end of the book, everything makes LESS sense than it did as it was happening. I don’t know what I wanted. The literary lens that she put over everything dimmed things to the point of obfuscation, I had no clue how I was supposed to be feeling or what I was supposed to be expecting—but not in a thrilling way. In the kind of way where I kind of expected it to be revealed that they were trapped in a weird circus or being hunted by magical gangsters. Maybe that’s my fault, though.
And don’t say “inspired by true events” if you’re not going to expand upon that at all. What was true? The amnesia, the mirror twins, the New Age child p*rn sex cult?
Looking back with the knowledge that we have at the end of the book, everything makes LESS sense than it did as it was happening. I don’t know what I wanted. The literary lens that she put over everything dimmed things to the point of obfuscation, I had no clue how I was supposed to be feeling or what I was supposed to be expecting—but not in a thrilling way. In the kind of way where I kind of expected it to be revealed that they were trapped in a weird circus or being hunted by magical gangsters. Maybe that’s my fault, though.