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A review by rhiasaurus94
As Time Goes By by Mary Higgins Clark
3.0
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For a book I only bought because I'd run out of things to read on holiday and this was the only book that sounded good and wasn't in French in the airport, this turned out to be quite good. I've never read anything by Mary Higgins Clark before, so I wasn't sure what to expect. I also wasn't aware this was part of a series, let alone the tenth in a series!
This isn't the strongest thriller I've ever read, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. It's a slow burn, multiple-POV work, where most of the points of view don't fit together until nearly the end when you're starting to put together what's going on. Knowing now that it's the tenth in a series about Alvirah and Willy, I can understand their presence in the story, because their involvement didn't really make sense to me while I was reading. Obviously without them the story wouldn't work, but I just thought they were being unnecessarily nosey for the sake of the plot.
I did like the way the plot twisted - there were no silly leaps like in some thrillers - every jump was believable. I'm interested to see what the earlier books in this series are like.
For a book I only bought because I'd run out of things to read on holiday and this was the only book that sounded good and wasn't in French in the airport, this turned out to be quite good. I've never read anything by Mary Higgins Clark before, so I wasn't sure what to expect. I also wasn't aware this was part of a series, let alone the tenth in a series!
This isn't the strongest thriller I've ever read, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. It's a slow burn, multiple-POV work, where most of the points of view don't fit together until nearly the end when you're starting to put together what's going on. Knowing now that it's the tenth in a series about Alvirah and Willy, I can understand their presence in the story, because their involvement didn't really make sense to me while I was reading. Obviously without them the story wouldn't work, but I just thought they were being unnecessarily nosey for the sake of the plot.
I did like the way the plot twisted - there were no silly leaps like in some thrillers - every jump was believable. I'm interested to see what the earlier books in this series are like.