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A review by karenika
On Hampstead Heath by Marika Cobbold
3.0
3.5 stars
This was such an interesting reading experience for me.
This is the story of Thorn Marsh who is a serious journalist at a paper that is slowly letting go of its morals and she is swiftly let go of her job at the news section and placed into a department to tell "feel good" stories.
She writes up a semi-fictional feel good story while in a drunken stupor and wakes up to find the story go viral. Now she has a conundrum between her morals and her reality and things start unwinding from there.
The beginning of this story was really slow for me but then it started picking up and I found myself following along as the character tangled herself into bigger and bigger messes. Lying is a slippery slope and it's hard to figure out when you've met that moment that you can't turn back from.
I enjoyed the time I spent with this story and read it in one sitting once I was past the beginning section.
with gratitude to Arcadia Books and edelweiss for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.
This was such an interesting reading experience for me.
This is the story of Thorn Marsh who is a serious journalist at a paper that is slowly letting go of its morals and she is swiftly let go of her job at the news section and placed into a department to tell "feel good" stories.
She writes up a semi-fictional feel good story while in a drunken stupor and wakes up to find the story go viral. Now she has a conundrum between her morals and her reality and things start unwinding from there.
The beginning of this story was really slow for me but then it started picking up and I found myself following along as the character tangled herself into bigger and bigger messes. Lying is a slippery slope and it's hard to figure out when you've met that moment that you can't turn back from.
I enjoyed the time I spent with this story and read it in one sitting once I was past the beginning section.
with gratitude to Arcadia Books and edelweiss for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.