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This cleverly constructed and addictive mystery has almost everything
you could want from a thriller. It will keep readers hooked until its final
pages, mostly out of a desperation to find out what happened to the
protagonist, Alice Salmon, on the night she mysteriously drowned, once and for
all.
Many of the book’s most prominent characters are not the
most likable people and this can make certain segments a bit of a struggle.
However, this is more than made up for in the originality of the structure. Alice’s
texts, emails and other media related to her life are slowly pieced together by
a Professor (who is obsessed with Alice to a slightly creepy extent), allowing
the reader to be fully immersed within the world of Alice Salmon. This idea
also works well in the fact that it really allows the reader to get to know
Alice, as small things such as music playlists really flesh out her character,
making her seem like a real person. This then in turn makes the reader even
more desperate to know what actually happened on the night of her death.
The only slight disappointment (emphasis on slight) is the
final reveal of what happened to her. Although it could have ended with a worse
scenario, thinking about it logically about 10 pages before it is revealed may
lead to the reader working it out. In spite of this, getting to that point is
as fun as any TV mystery. In addition to this, the novel’s conclusion is not
only satisfying but is actually very moving.
On the whole this is an addictive and thrilling mystery that
offers readers everything they could want from the Mystery genre.
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