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'Gone Girl' meets the Bond movies. The main plot for ‘Honeytrap’ revolves around the protagonist carrying out a mission to extract information from a ‘mark’. Initially she believes she’s been assigned a villain, but the further she delves into the mark’s life she discovers he isn’t as Honeytrap has portrayed him and there are secrets being kept by her handlers regarding the true intention of ‘Honeytrap’. The story is full of twists and turns. A major revelation in the middle of the book almost had mefall over backwards. The whole mission isn’t just about extracting information, it also uncovers a deep search for identity as the protagonist grapples with whether or not she can start again and reinvent herself as Honeytrap. What really stayed with me was the ending. I am not going to give it away but it was bittersweet and pretty messy. Not the kind of ending you would expect from a typical spy thriller and actually kind of realistic in the end. It makes you realize that sometimes the biggest lie we tell is the one we believe to be true.

This is a plot driven primarily by consent. As you grant Traumaland permission to alter your dreams, fine print can read off vast amounts of data to do with you, in waking life. Aris comes to realize that Traumaland is altering fundamental aspects of her users’ personalities and “forgetting” memories they had chosen to retain. In one dramatic example, a client who had been using the service in an attempt to conquer a fear of water in dreams to find out he had been having dreams in which he was overcoming his traumatic near-drowning of his childhood. He was appalled to discover that he had, in fact, been trying to erase the memories of that event from his mind and had not, in fact, wanted to forget them. The story follows Aris on her journey through the gray areas of theBOUNDARIES of cognitive freedom. Can one give consent for their mind to be edited? It’s a powerful and philosophical question at the heart of this tension-filled Thriller. And, as her journey unfolds, she becomes a sort of activist, fighting for a new fundamental human right.

'3.5 stars' is my rating for 'Ostrobogulous Pigs'. I have no idea how the author managed to pack philosophy, satire and a farmyard full of animals into this novel but he did a good job. It is quite easy to follow for the most part. A very funny story where pigs are at the center of a world where the amount of rubbish one owns in as great as or greater than one’s worth. There is a longish flashback about the Great Sock Rebellion as well as a very poignant passage where a minor character pig comes to terms with his lot in life. The main story is quickly told but there is much to entertain and ponder in the sidebar golden acorn story which is cleverer than it seems at first. Only one chapter is a grocery list but it is actually part of the plot! This is a very quick read that you will either love or hate, depending on whether you get the novelist’s increasingly infrequent rhythm of plotting or not. I had to look up several parts, including why, in the climax of the novel, the pigs are constructing a giant teacups tower.

My bookstagram review of THIS IS HOW YOU STAY was to state that it was atmospheric and aching and seriously anxiety-inducing. This is a puzzle to read slowly and reflectively and experience, not to solve, with the desperate Lena at the center, and her silent world of lake wind and empty house so vividly realized that you feel your way through it. The mystery of what happened to Molly is fine, but it is nothing like as powerful or long-lasting as the exploration of Lena’s emotional state that accompanies it. Will Lena’s ghost be something that the reader is willing to follow anywhere? And will the truth about Molly’s death be so terrible that it destroys the last happy memories that the reader has of Lena before she went away? That is the real hook of this book.

This discussion of the plot is more interesting than the actual plot. Us, analyzing a story from a literary perspective, a psychological perspective, and even a cultural perspective. And the text itself is most likely to be pretty average, following a very standard structure. But why does this fantasy work so well for this author and for readers to the extent that there are thousands of chapters and hundreds of thousands of comments?

My rating for this story would be somewhat low. The premise is good but the execution is quite poor. The story follows the reincarnation of a person but instead of jumping straight into the main character as an adult, the story follows them from infancy in a tribal setting. The story progresses at a glacial pace while following the main character’s daily life as he learns to make tools and how to interact with the rest of the tribe. The supernatural elements of the world, as well as the main conflict with the gods, are virtually ignored until very late in the story. If you’re a huge fan of extremely in-depth world-building that almost reads like an anthropological study of a long-lost tribe, then you’ll likely enjoy this. However, if you’re looking for a story that moves at a fast-pace with clearly defined goals for the main character and rapid power gains, then you’ll likely be very disappointed. The central conflict doesn’t really start to take shape until very late in the first major story arc.

There’s a lot of novels that make you check over your shoulder while reading ‘The Burrow’ is one of them. Four friends dared each other to map out their cave, or burrow, and the next night the layout had changed. What follows is the struggle of the four friends to maintain trust as they try to work out whether they’re just being paranoid or whether something supernatural is going on. The dialogue between the teenagers is particularly great as they argue between logic and fear. One of the most surprising moments for me was when a character suddenly disappeared mid-sentence, and the others frantically try to explain away what’s just happened. The ending is left somewhat open to interpretation, but just gives you enough to keep speculating long after you’ve finished reading the book.

What is ultimately the most serious plot point of a very serious novel can be summarized simply: the descriptions of food are extremely detailed and very much make me hungry. All of the advancing of subplots takes place over the course of several stressful meals at various trendy gastropubs. The quality of the steak and ale pie that is served at any given table seems to be in direct correlation with the amount of betrayal going on at that table. In general, the more down to earth characters are the ones who appreciate good, simple food, whereas the more self centered, scheming characters are the ones who order extremely pretentious, “deconstructed” food. I read the novel this way, anyway. Often I found myself judging the characters based on their meal choices.

I just finished reading ‘Hunt Me, Darling’ over a weekend and I am totally hooked by this book! The novel is at its core a romantic cat-and-mouse game, well wrapped up in a thriller’s skin. The main hunter is a very cold, very precise professional who has been trained to hunt down, capture or kill his targets. His current mark is unusual in that he or she is not at all what he or she seems to be. The hunter’s contract is straight forward enough: follow, corner and complete his mission. But the longer he is around his current mark the more he finds himself torn between his duty and his desire for this enigmatic person. For me, this novel was a chase structured in three acts: (1) the hunt, where the two leads engage in high-stakes surveillance, racing across rooftops, tailing each other through dark, deserted streets and hidden alleyways; (2) the unraveling, as the Hunter learns to see the Target in a new light, with all their complicated secrets and pain, and the two of them work to uncover the truth of the Hunter’s elusive contract and the mysterious mastermind or organization behind it all; and (3) the violent confrontation in which both characters are forced to make choices about their allegiances, with huge consequences for both of them. I love the chemistry and tension between the characters, both morally ambiguous in their own ways. The hunter is not a simple anti-hero. There is much that has driven them to this point in their life and you get a glimpse into their past which explains their current way of life but does not excuse it. The target is equally complex and clever. They have a principle to their nature but are in no way perfect. They have their own flaws and can sometimes be uncomfortably cuddly, sometimes puncturing the hunter’s armor with a single comment or action that takes you by surprise. Dialogue is fabulous, full of humor, sarcasm and emotion, and the internal monologues are truthful without being overly mawkish. I was surprised by a few twist and turns, and there were a couple of moments of moral ambiguity that had me thinking about my heroes and the choices that they made throughout the book. It deals with some dark themes: violence, trauma, and manipulation, but it’s also got a lot of heart and that’s what makes it work so well. The pace is fast and fun, and I loved how the main characters’ story developed in lovely, quiet moments of introspection where the two could sort out their trust of each other and grapple with the possibility of a brand new start. While there are scenes of action, I never once felt I was being spoon-fed or told what to feel, which was really terrific. All in all, a really great read, and I can see why this would be a really popular and highly-recommended enemies-to-lovers novel, especially of the sort of thriller-with-heart type that fans of yours might enjoy.

Am I talking about the book with the twist about the narrator? If so, it’s best to go into it blind, as any summary of the book would give away about 70% of the book’s power. The set-up for the book is fairly mundane (a crime, an investigation) but the execution of the book is incredibly good. The book is told from the perspectives that the author chooses and at first the prose is very dry and observational. However, as the book continues on, the prose becomes more and more fevered and fragmented. I wouldn’t want to commit a crime to tell you more about this book, but if you like stories that play with point-of-view and try to trick the reader, then this is the kind of book that you’ll want to read. One of the plot points is the plot against the reader's assumptions.