A review by pdestrienne
Reprieve by James Han Mattson

dark tense fast-paced

4.0

My good luck that I checked this out on my phone the night I had terrible insomnia. I had this book to keep me hooked and distracted without despairing of my health the next day. It's gripping, the interspersed court transcripts are well deployed, the haunt itself is tense and gory, and the inevitable tragedy casts a doomy atmosphere over the whole thing. I felt like the author wanted me to draw my own conclusions as to the message or the point of the book, and it would make a great discussion book for a strong-stomached book club. HOWEVER any time a character was fat or pudgy they were described in grotesque ways, like their bodies were disgusting moral failures, and that was very disappointing to me.
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