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The Accident
by Chris Pavone
https://modernmrsdarcy.com/2015-summer-reading-guide/
I suspect that this is a very good book that I met at the wrong time, in the wrong format, and we just never clicked. I can see why people in the publishing business must love this - a book about a manuscript full of such powerful secrets that people are killed over its contents and the people who work in the publishing world (assistants, editors, producers, so many occupations I don't really know) must decide how to handle this vaulital work that could make their careers explode - or kill them. It did feel wrong to be reading this on my phone when each character refers to how good it feels to read using physical copies of books. I kept getting distracted by other books and then it became hard to keep straight the backstories of each of these characters and what they were supposed to do or who they were supposed to betray. Along with a healthy dose of misdirection, of course. Something about the pacing seemed off to me - it was all told over the course of one day and was supposedly fast paced, but it seemed to drag without much action. I was, admittedly, distracted from it a lot, and sometimes had trouble keeping straight to each character box. People in the publishing industry (or paying closer attention) would have zero trouble keeping apart an agent from an editor from a publisher from a media mogul. I mean, I didn’t either, just... at times, hard to keep the characters straight. Long and meandering and slow, despite its purported fast pace. The unannounced jumping flashbacks added a layer of confusion (intentional, probably?) It’s beautiful writing and very focused on the book industry - but just not my favorite. Yes! As another reviewer wrote: "Tons of people are killed off slowly and systematically through the book. I found this almost boring." Somehow lots of death and destruction manages to be boring.
Quote:
He’s surprised at how many of those decisions made back then, at a time when adulthood seem to stretch ahead indefinitely, turned out to be untemporary. Careers and hobbies, spouses or lack thereof, political beliefs and literary preferences, hairstyles and pocket squares. 67/1144
Spoiler:
Okay, wait, so the author is married to Isabel? Ugh.
I suspect that this is a very good book that I met at the wrong time, in the wrong format, and we just never clicked. I can see why people in the publishing business must love this - a book about a manuscript full of such powerful secrets that people are killed over its contents and the people who work in the publishing world (assistants, editors, producers, so many occupations I don't really know) must decide how to handle this vaulital work that could make their careers explode - or kill them. It did feel wrong to be reading this on my phone when each character refers to how good it feels to read using physical copies of books. I kept getting distracted by other books and then it became hard to keep straight the backstories of each of these characters and what they were supposed to do or who they were supposed to betray. Along with a healthy dose of misdirection, of course. Something about the pacing seemed off to me - it was all told over the course of one day and was supposedly fast paced, but it seemed to drag without much action. I was, admittedly, distracted from it a lot, and sometimes had trouble keeping straight to each character box. People in the publishing industry (or paying closer attention) would have zero trouble keeping apart an agent from an editor from a publisher from a media mogul. I mean, I didn’t either, just... at times, hard to keep the characters straight. Long and meandering and slow, despite its purported fast pace. The unannounced jumping flashbacks added a layer of confusion (intentional, probably?) It’s beautiful writing and very focused on the book industry - but just not my favorite. Yes! As another reviewer wrote: "Tons of people are killed off slowly and systematically through the book. I found this almost boring." Somehow lots of death and destruction manages to be boring.
Quote:
He’s surprised at how many of those decisions made back then, at a time when adulthood seem to stretch ahead indefinitely, turned out to be untemporary. Careers and hobbies, spouses or lack thereof, political beliefs and literary preferences, hairstyles and pocket squares. 67/1144
Spoiler:
Okay, wait, so the author is married to Isabel? Ugh.