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They’re only hiding they’re still here, for ever and ever.” I should have detected the emotion, the almost spiritual or supernatural entanglement of the narrating (unreliable narrator sub-genre) investigator with the “family” of damaged individuals that made up the household.

The others aren’t gone, I got it all wrong somehow. Stockholm syndrome? Never mentioned.īut again – the Preface: “Somewhere in the house, faint as a fingernail-flick at the edge of my hearing, there are sounds: a scuffle, whispers.

On top of this - and perhaps the preface would have been a clue - she becomes emotionally/spiritually entangled with the person she is impersonating, and she becomes entangled with the suspects with whom she is living over the few weeks of her undercover operation.

In conclusion, – no, I did not “like” the lead character at all. From the point that she failed to tell Frank about the diary until the ultimate stupid move (displaying the hidden mic to Daniel), I grew increasingly impatient with her and –whatever other merits to the book became increasingly harder to appreciate. Buy that empty explanation to continue reading. So why? It isn’t clear except for a psychologically twisted explanation that she … what? owed this to someone? It isn’t really clear.

Cassie conceals information from her handler and superior officer – why? It was dangerous to do that and in fact the case would likely have come to a better conclusion had she been a team-player.

You could cut 20% of the book without interfering with the mood, style, plot or charcterizations. I don’t buy the idea that this is a “literary novel” so that gives the author “permission” to write endlessly.

The explanations of Cassie’s emotions and the details of the relationships in the community are verbose and become annoyingly boring.Will her impersonation of Lexie, a young adult living in a cult-like community, be discovered? Will the other 4 members realize that she is not the cult member they lived with for two years? Did one of the 4 actually kill Lexie? The concept is good and the tension is there.īut for me, the suspense is sidelined by several distracting factors about the story: Tension (suspense) picks up for remainder, however, as Detective Cassie from the Dublin police, the main character, goes undercover. By chapter 3 I am ranting, “Come on! Get on with it!” Don’t sit around and think, complain, and plan. It was hard to get into it in the first 3 chapters (96 pages).