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kristianawithak 's review for:
The Book of Air and Shadows
by Michael Gruber
Interesting story about a missing shakespeare manuscript. One of the main character's love of movies is a fun lense to look through. The character said of cops 'they act like the cops they see on tv acting etc.' It is done well and has not become tiresome.
Told pretty well through alternating point of views until the two alternating POVs join the same story line then the chapters are retelling the same plot developments from different perspectives rather than two different stories with a common link.
Both gentlemen are obsessed with women who dooped them (separately) and if it turns out to be the same woman that ploy was terribly transparent and should not have been dragged out as long as it was. If for some reason they are twins or two different women that might be interesting...but I doubt that is the case.
*Update* the author did drag on the two women who happen to be the same woman until the very end. It wasn't terribly painful and I began to doubt my assumptions.
Overall it was interesting and fun to listen to. It kind of fizzled out in the end rapping everything up terribly neatly. It used the 'life is the like the movies' angle like a crutch in the end scenes.
Told pretty well through alternating point of views until the two alternating POVs join the same story line then the chapters are retelling the same plot developments from different perspectives rather than two different stories with a common link.
Both gentlemen are obsessed with women who dooped them (separately) and if it turns out to be the same woman that ploy was terribly transparent and should not have been dragged out as long as it was. If for some reason they are twins or two different women that might be interesting...but I doubt that is the case.
*Update* the author did drag on the two women who happen to be the same woman until the very end. It wasn't terribly painful and I began to doubt my assumptions.
Overall it was interesting and fun to listen to. It kind of fizzled out in the end rapping everything up terribly neatly. It used the 'life is the like the movies' angle like a crutch in the end scenes.