There’s some twisted things going on in these characters’ backstories, but all rang true to me. Although some goodreads reviewers complained the plot was unbelievable, I disagree completely. And because I’m a sap for a happy ending, I really wanted the couples we meet to find their way back to each other. Who is to blame? Why does history keep repeating itself? What is required of a victim to escape dangerous circumstances?Įven though I anticipated what was going to happen, I was still propelled through the pages in an effort to learn more about the characters and what drove them. Does it matter who did what to who? Not really, because this novel isn’t a straightforward thriller, it’s attempting to explain why women find themselves in unhealthy relationships. It’s not a common marketing strategy, but again it leads me to the belief that the author is less focused on the ‘what’ and more focused on the ‘why’. The publisher has made a strange decision in which the summary blurb of the book reveals something that doesn’t happen until the last third of the novel. Many of these secrets are predictable, but I think Stapley did this on purpose.
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At the heart of it is a team of expert divers who are hired to look for a missing nuclear submarine and find something much more fascinating. With its sub-aquatic entities (rendered with then-cutting-edge VFX that still looks good today) and a Jules Verne-ian sense of deep-sea exploration, The Abyss feels distinct from the usual space-bound sci-fi. Trust James Cameron, then – long before Avatar – to look to the other inky-black instead, the mysterious ocean depths. Director: James Cameron Starring: Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael BiehnMost sci-fi films look to the cosmos for signs of new life. This awkward love triangle holds, barely, until one day Brynn abruptly walks out on them both, also abandoning her small children in the process. The narrator, Jessa, has only ever loved one woman, Brynn, but Brynn chose the more conventional life of marriage and babies offered by Jessa’s brother Milo (while continuing to have sex with Jessa on the sly). Instead, this is quite a dark story about a family of grieving, emotionally damaged people. Despite the neon bright cover that screams ‘Quirky! Funny!’, Mostly Dead Things is Mostly about Sad People, and I didn’t find much mirth in this debut (maybe a sardonic undercurrent, at best). Martins Press, 2019), won the National Outdoor Book Award (2020) and the Banff Mountain Book Award for Adventure Travel Literature (2020). Levy’s book Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition (St. In 2018 he was an on-camera expert on the 4-part TV Series THE FRONTIERSMEN: The Men Who Built America (HISTORY, Executive Producer Leonardo Di Caprio). He was the co-star, for 25 episodes from 2010-2012, on HISTORY Channel’s hit docuseries Brad Meltzer’s DECODED, which aired to an average of 1.7 million weekly viewers and is still airing as reruns today. Levy is the author of nine books and his work has been featured or reviewed in The New York Times, NPR, TIME, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, Kirkus Book Reviews, Publisher’s Weekly, Booklist, The Daily Beast, The A.V. Buddy Levy's most recent book is Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk (St. |