Obedience
by:
Will Lavender (author)
“With superb confidence, Lavender constructs a brilliant fictional web of lies, inventively warping the psychological thriller to fit the confines of a scholarly investigation.” —Kirkus Reviews When the students in Winchester University’s Logic and Reasoning 204 arrive for their first day of...
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“With superb confidence, Lavender constructs a brilliant fictional web of lies, inventively warping the psychological thriller to fit the confines of a scholarly investigation.” —Kirkus Reviews When the students in Winchester University’s Logic and Reasoning 204 arrive for their first day of class, they are greeted not with a syllabus or texts, but with a startling assignment from Professor Williams: Find a hypothetical missing girl named Polly. If after being given a series of clues and details the class has not found her before the end of the term in six weeks, she will be murdered.At first the students are as intrigued by the premise of their puzzle as they are wary of the strange and slightly creepy Professor Williams. But as they delve deeper into the mystery, they begin to wonder: Is the Polly story simply a logic exercise, designed to teach them rational thinking skills, or could it be something more sinister and dangerous?The mystery soon takes over the lives of three students as they find disturbing connections between Polly and themselves. Characters that were supposedly fictitious begin to emerge in reality. Soon, the boundary between the classroom assignment and the real world becomes blurred—and the students wonder if it is their own lives they are being asked to save.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780307396105 (030739610X)
Publish date: February 19th 2008
Publisher: Shaye Areheart Books
Pages no: 289
Edition language: English
Category:
Academic,
Book Club,
Adult,
Mystery,
College,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Psychology,
Suspense,
New Adult
The first half is intriguing and makes you want to continually read (or listen as in this case) to try to figure out what in blazes is happening. The last half is disappointing and lame.Three stars -- read the first half and then make up your own ending.
To repeat what many reviewers have already said, This is a page turner but not in a good way. The premise was promising. Professor in a logic class gives an hypothetical dilemma that the students must resolve. Yet the dilemma may not be so hypothetical. Soon the students are obsessed in the assignme...
I would have liked to give this 3.5 stars, but since I can't, I'll go with one up rather than one down. I mostly like the twist ending, though it skates very close to being a bit *too* much of a twist, and as a result is, to me, a bit disappointing -- it comes very close to being over the top, and w...