A review by ciska
Panic Room, by Robert Goddard
3.0
Slow but steady was the first thing that came to my mind when I started writing this review. It is clear Goddard knows how to capture his audience and keep it close.
The story is very interesting. You have to know what that panic room is about and why everybody is after it. And that everybody is a bit of a problem with this book.
There are a lot of people involved. The (maybe or maybe not) rich owner of the house, Blake the house sitter, Don the estate agent, the family of the missing girl, a witch from town, some Italian guy and a few mobsters. All get their story line and it is a lot. It could have done with half the people involved and be just as interesting.
Then there is the switching narrative. It makes it interesting to see the story from different points of view but both the narratives are troubled making it hard to connect to either one of them. Moving between two stressed out people does help with setting the atmosphere but did not give me time to breath. In the end that might not even be so bad.
The story is very interesting. You have to know what that panic room is about and why everybody is after it. And that everybody is a bit of a problem with this book.
There are a lot of people involved. The (maybe or maybe not) rich owner of the house, Blake the house sitter, Don the estate agent, the family of the missing girl, a witch from town, some Italian guy and a few mobsters. All get their story line and it is a lot. It could have done with half the people involved and be just as interesting.
Then there is the switching narrative. It makes it interesting to see the story from different points of view but both the narratives are troubled making it hard to connect to either one of them. Moving between two stressed out people does help with setting the atmosphere but did not give me time to breath. In the end that might not even be so bad.