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Sliver
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The female editor of trashy gothic romance novels gets a new apartment in a high rise, only to discover she is being watched.
This was an uncomfortably tense suspense novel that had two issues: the ending and being written at the wrong time.
The ending: the heroine makes several references to gothic novels, and indeed the opening of the book is indeed a juggling of "who is the bad guy really" that is the staple of gothics. Things veer in an interesting direction toward the middle of the book, overturning one big gothic trope, but then wrap up in a kind-of gothic fashion at the end, a bit deus ex machina. But there's one element missing: the good guy that the heroine has believed for most of the book to be the bad guy. I try not to "rewrite" books in reviews, but the ending was so weak I had to reread it to make sure I hadn't missed something.
Being written at the wrong time: This doesn't work as a thriller and would have gone over a lot better as a modern domestic suspense novel, with its shifting clues and tangled morality. Call it Girl in the Penthouse, fix the end with a good guy (hey, make it abut a same sex love triangle, why not?) and make sure she inherits the building, sell a bajillion copies, make a movie, cast Sharon Stone as the director character amd give her some good murdery red herrings, PROFIT.
Recommended if you like Gone Girl.
This was an uncomfortably tense suspense novel that had two issues: the ending and being written at the wrong time.
The ending: the heroine makes several references to gothic novels, and indeed the opening of the book is indeed a juggling of "who is the bad guy really" that is the staple of gothics. Things veer in an interesting direction toward the middle of the book, overturning one big gothic trope, but then wrap up in a kind-of gothic fashion at the end, a bit deus ex machina. But there's one element missing: the good guy that the heroine has believed for most of the book to be the bad guy. I try not to "rewrite" books in reviews, but the ending was so weak I had to reread it to make sure I hadn't missed something.
Being written at the wrong time: This doesn't work as a thriller and would have gone over a lot better as a modern domestic suspense novel, with its shifting clues and tangled morality. Call it Girl in the Penthouse, fix the end with a good guy (hey, make it abut a same sex love triangle, why not?) and make sure she inherits the building, sell a bajillion copies, make a movie, cast Sharon Stone as the director character amd give her some good murdery red herrings, PROFIT.
Recommended if you like Gone Girl.
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