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Elizabeth Is Missing is a book that I absolutely loved, it's all about the protagonists slow slide into dementia, and through the book you follow her getting muddled over the present with her friend Elizabeth going missing, and the past where her sister Sukey suddenly disappeared shortly after the Second World War had ended. The reviews on goodreads seemed a bit mixed, and I feel like how much you enjoyed it depends on whether you viewed it as a mystery or not? There were quite a few complaints from readers expecting more of a mystery, but I enjoyed (if that's the right word!) the book more as a very moving look at how Maude's mind was slowly deteriorating. The mystery was really only there as a device to frame Maude's confusion between her present and past IMO, rather than being the point of the book, but apparently some people got annoyed because there was a lot of hype over it being a thriller/comparisons to Gone Girl
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And then The Dead House was a bit of a disappointment for me after the premise drew me in, but I seem to be the lone weirdo that wasn't absolutely blown away by it :( It's YA and focused on 'the Johnson Incident' and what led up to it, we follow the diary of Kaitlyn who shares a body with Carly, and the question is raised of whether she suffers from disassociate identity disorder, or whether there's a paranormal explanation for everything. The premise seemed like an intriguing one, but I found that I just could not get that into it, one of my main issues was that I felt like the way it was written ended up keeping me at a distance from the characters (it's all told through descriptions of video footage, transcripts of therapy sessions, interviews, and the diary entries). I'd argue that the supporting characters were really underdeveloped as well, I found most of their voices in the group scenes pretty generic, it was really only Kaitlyn and Nadia that stood out most of the time. Well and Ari I guess
As for the ending, ( spoilers )
I would have liked to have found more reader discussion on it actually, it would be interesting to hear what people's theories were, but unfortunately I couldn't find much, just the usual spoiler-free reviews mostly. Also the title made it a challenging book to google, I kept getting results for similarly titled popular movies instead!
And finally The Light Of The Fireflies was a book that I had very mixed feelings on. It was certainly well-written and engrossing when it came to the first half of the book, it's told through the eyes of a ten year old boy who has spend his entire life living with his family in a basement for reasons that he doesn't yet understand, and it leaves you very curious to find out what exactly happened to this family. But I had MANY issues with what seemed to be the final moral ( spoilers )
( spoilers )
And then The Dead House was a bit of a disappointment for me after the premise drew me in, but I seem to be the lone weirdo that wasn't absolutely blown away by it :( It's YA and focused on 'the Johnson Incident' and what led up to it, we follow the diary of Kaitlyn who shares a body with Carly, and the question is raised of whether she suffers from disassociate identity disorder, or whether there's a paranormal explanation for everything. The premise seemed like an intriguing one, but I found that I just could not get that into it, one of my main issues was that I felt like the way it was written ended up keeping me at a distance from the characters (it's all told through descriptions of video footage, transcripts of therapy sessions, interviews, and the diary entries). I'd argue that the supporting characters were really underdeveloped as well, I found most of their voices in the group scenes pretty generic, it was really only Kaitlyn and Nadia that stood out most of the time. Well and Ari I guess
As for the ending, ( spoilers )
I would have liked to have found more reader discussion on it actually, it would be interesting to hear what people's theories were, but unfortunately I couldn't find much, just the usual spoiler-free reviews mostly. Also the title made it a challenging book to google, I kept getting results for similarly titled popular movies instead!
And finally The Light Of The Fireflies was a book that I had very mixed feelings on. It was certainly well-written and engrossing when it came to the first half of the book, it's told through the eyes of a ten year old boy who has spend his entire life living with his family in a basement for reasons that he doesn't yet understand, and it leaves you very curious to find out what exactly happened to this family. But I had MANY issues with what seemed to be the final moral ( spoilers )
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