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Havoc by Christopher Bollen
4.5
This story follows a new trend of fiction, particularly thriller/crime fiction, with an elderly protagonist.
We follow Maggie Burkhardt at the Royal Karnak, someone who takes it upon herself to meddle in the lives of other hotel guests in the aim of freeing them from their doomed relationships. We are introduced to Otto, a boy who finds out about her secret role.
Maggie is the protagonist and through her narration we come to dislike and despise Otto, as we watch the escalation in their revenges it reaches a climax and lives are ruined. Maggie is an unreliable narrator as we find out, but I am someone who dislikes abrupt and ambiguous endings so I wish it was more clearer. Ultimately Otto is evil and I hate him, also his mother and Zacks constant excuse and inability to see ottos disturbing behaviour was infuriating.
I enjoyed the story but it did take a while to get into the story and there were some parts where it did drag and nothing much happened, but it was interesting and I liked it.
Also this book is set during the COVID lockdown so there is a lot of mention of it which was jarring, it's not something I want to read so be warned
We follow Maggie Burkhardt at the Royal Karnak, someone who takes it upon herself to meddle in the lives of other hotel guests in the aim of freeing them from their doomed relationships. We are introduced to Otto, a boy who finds out about her secret role.
Maggie is the protagonist and through her narration we come to dislike and despise Otto, as we watch the escalation in their revenges it reaches a climax and lives are ruined. Maggie is an unreliable narrator as we find out, but I am someone who dislikes abrupt and ambiguous endings so I wish it was more clearer. Ultimately Otto is evil and I hate him, also his mother and Zacks constant excuse and inability to see ottos disturbing behaviour was infuriating.
I enjoyed the story but it did take a while to get into the story and there were some parts where it did drag and nothing much happened, but it was interesting and I liked it.
Also this book is set during the COVID lockdown so there is a lot of mention of it which was jarring, it's not something I want to read so be warned
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Death, Mental illness, and Murder
None Shall Sleep by Ellie Marney
4.75
Very 'silence of the lamb'
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Blood, and Murder
Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories by Ghassan Kanafani
emotional
5.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Animal death, Blood, Trafficking, and War