The Girl With A Clock For A Heart
by:
Peter Swanson (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780571301881 (0571301886)
Publish date: February 6th 2014
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
This had so much promise but, although I enjoyed some of it the way through, it was all so conveniently plotted that I didn't feel any real sense of conflict or satisfaction at the end. George Foss was also not a protagonist I was cheering on. I don't want to say too much or I'll spoil the plot but ...
George is having a midlife slump and then his girlfriend from college, who he hasn’t seen in 20ish years, walks into his local bar, needing him to help her out of the mess she’s in. This book felt like a noir movie, but I just couldn’t buy into it. I found the story to be slow, predictable, and tr...
All the way through, this felt like a padded novella, and the acknowledgement at the end confirms this. Superfluous descriptive prose added to pad this out only ends up making it drag, totally destroying and atmosphere built up by the storyline. Full review here: http://moodycowbooks.blogspot.co.uk...
Peter Swanson's The Girl With A Clock For A Heart threw me for a loop. I'll admit that I went into this book completely blind. This was a total case of succumbing to cover love when I was offered this for review. That being said, I was pleasantly surprised by this book. It's got a bit of Hitchcock f...
The premise of the book is that George's college girlfriend allegedly committed suicide. When he goes to visit her parents, he discovers that the woman he thought of as Audrey is actually a con artist. She returns 20 years later and asks him for help. He soon finds himself in the middle of a murd...
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