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The Lamplighters
by Emma Stonex
This book revolves around the mystery of three missing lighthouse keepers.
There are numerous unexplainable circumstances surrounding their disappearance, and many years later an author is attempting to make sense of it all.
This book keeps you thoroughly engages through the whole read.
At first, things seem normal, but as the book progresses, small bits of information start to slot into place and begin to twist your mind and the story.
You begin to question the credibility of some of the narrators as you slowly listen to their minds unhinge.
The way the story is told is quite unique too.
The author who will be writing the book in this book is silent.
All chapters from his point of view are one sied conversations where you hear the interviewee and not the author.
This was a very interesting technique, one I haven't come across before, but really liked.
It not only added to the strangeness, and the distance of the characters (as they held back secrets), but also shifted the focus entirely onto those being interviewed.
As if you were intently listening to just them, and trying to catch any hidden meaning or slip up of their answers.
Each element of this book is shrouded in mystery.
And it's so hard to even guess what has happened as you slowly learn all the secrets of each character.
Like any good mystery, you cant piece it together until the end.
The last scene didn't quite feel as if it fits, but when you have spent a whole book in critical suspense, I think it's hard to find an ending that as a reader you'd be 100% happy with.
The research the author did into lighthouses definitely shows.
A well-written novel that is full of suspense.
If you are into those kinds of books, you'll like this one.
There are numerous unexplainable circumstances surrounding their disappearance, and many years later an author is attempting to make sense of it all.
This book keeps you thoroughly engages through the whole read.
At first, things seem normal, but as the book progresses, small bits of information start to slot into place and begin to twist your mind and the story.
You begin to question the credibility of some of the narrators as you slowly listen to their minds unhinge.
The way the story is told is quite unique too.
The author who will be writing the book in this book is silent.
All chapters from his point of view are one sied conversations where you hear the interviewee and not the author.
This was a very interesting technique, one I haven't come across before, but really liked.
It not only added to the strangeness, and the distance of the characters (as they held back secrets), but also shifted the focus entirely onto those being interviewed.
As if you were intently listening to just them, and trying to catch any hidden meaning or slip up of their answers.
Each element of this book is shrouded in mystery.
And it's so hard to even guess what has happened as you slowly learn all the secrets of each character.
Like any good mystery, you cant piece it together until the end.
The last scene didn't quite feel as if it fits, but when you have spent a whole book in critical suspense, I think it's hard to find an ending that as a reader you'd be 100% happy with.
The research the author did into lighthouses definitely shows.
A well-written novel that is full of suspense.
If you are into those kinds of books, you'll like this one.