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A review by onelittlearchive
Old Soul by Susan Barker
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Oh man, I loved this.
This book had me pacing around my house with my stomach clenched in a knot and yet it's some of the most fun I've had reading a book in awhile.
I'm unsure how quite to describe Old Soul as on it's face it sounds like a very intriguing mystery. The book opens on Jake and Mariko both of whom have just missed their flight to Amsterdam. They are perfect strangers and yet in a way that only two people who will never meet again can their conversation reveals a secret they both have in common. They both lost a loved one a horribly inexplicable way and both of their deaths had occurred shortly after they met a strange and unsettling woman.
This conversation begins Jake's journey to understand what happened to his childhood friend and everyone else who's crossed paths with The Woman. This story is told through the testimonies Jake has collected interspersed between a narrative following who you can only assume is The Woman. This left me trying to desperately piece together this mystery and with each new account I found myself feeling just as caught in the spiral of chaos that each narrator felt trying to understand what happened to the person they loved.
I loved how much this creeped me out and how it examines how much you are willing to do to live. I ate this up and I'm fairly certain I may never let another person take my photo for as long I live.
This book had me pacing around my house with my stomach clenched in a knot and yet it's some of the most fun I've had reading a book in awhile.
I'm unsure how quite to describe Old Soul as on it's face it sounds like a very intriguing mystery. The book opens on Jake and Mariko both of whom have just missed their flight to Amsterdam. They are perfect strangers and yet in a way that only two people who will never meet again can their conversation reveals a secret they both have in common. They both lost a loved one a horribly inexplicable way and both of their deaths had occurred shortly after they met a strange and unsettling woman.
This conversation begins Jake's journey to understand what happened to his childhood friend and everyone else who's crossed paths with The Woman. This story is told through the testimonies Jake has collected interspersed between a narrative following who you can only assume is The Woman. This left me trying to desperately piece together this mystery and with each new account I found myself feeling just as caught in the spiral of chaos that each narrator felt trying to understand what happened to the person they loved.
I loved how much this creeped me out and how it examines how much you are willing to do to live. I ate this up and I'm fairly certain I may never let another person take my photo for as long I live.