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A carregar... Unbecoming (2015)por Rebecca Scherm
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I would like to give this book 3.5 stars. Writing a bit self conscious, but overall quite good. A satisfying ending and good suspense throughout. ( ) ALMOST 4 STARS! Unbecoming follows 23-year-old Julie, who is actually called Grace, who is living in Paris and works to repair antiques. As the story continues, Grace begins to reveal the events that lead her to leave her small town life in Garland, Tennessee, as well as the man she married and the man she loves, behind. It's not a precocious love story or high-intensity suspense, which is I think really saved this novel. It has familiar elements without falling into the pattern. The story starts slowly and, for me at least, was a bit hard to connect with at first. However, after I got a feel for the story, I very much enjoyed it. I am a huge fan of art and liked the main character's interest in art history. The back and forth between Paris and the U.S. gives the reader the sense that we are experiencing the story in realtime as Grace/Julie is relaying it to Hanna. I liked that it wasn't the obvious romantic story line where the main character goes running back to the first love. I like that Grace had faults and screwed up a few times. There were times when I really didn't like Grace, but I don't consider that a bad thing. I think she was convincingly written. I also like that it ended differently than I thought it would. It was satisfying without being overly predictable. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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HTML:EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL ??Startlingly inventive.? ??The New York Times Book Review ??A sheer delight to read . . . I had no idea what was going to happen from one page to the next.? ??Kate Atkinson On the grubby outskirts of Paris, Grace restores bric-a-brac, mends teapots, re-sets gems. She calls herself Julie, says she??s from California, and slips back to a rented room at night. Regularly, furtively, she checks the hometown paper on the Internet. Home is Garland, Tennessee, and there, two young men have just been paroled. One, she married; the other, she??s in love with. Both were jailed for a crime that Grace herself planned in exacting detail. The heist went bad??but not before she was on a plane to Prague with a stolen canvas rolled in her bag. And so, in Paris, begins a cat-and-mouse waiting game as Grace??s web of deception and lies unravels??and she becomes another young woman entirely. Unbecoming is an intricately plotted and psychologically nuanced heist novel that turns on suspense and slippery identity. With echoes of Alfred Hitchcock and Patricia Highsmith, Rebecca Scherm??s mesmerizing debut is sure to entrance fans of Gillian Flynn, Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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