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Saint X por Alexis Schaitkin
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Saint X (edição 2020)

por Alexis Schaitkin (Autor)

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"Hailed as a "marvel of a book" and "brilliant and unflinching," Alexis Schaitkin's stunning debut, Saint X, is a haunting portrait of grief, obsession, and the bond between two sisters never truly given the chance to know one another. Claire is only seven years old when her college-age sister, Alison, disappears on the last night of their family vacation at a resort on the Caribbean island of Saint X. Several days later, Alison's body is found in a remote spot on a nearby cay, and two local men-employees at the resort-are arrested. But the evidence is slim, the timeline against it, and the men are soon released. The story turns into national tabloid news, a lurid mystery that will go unsolved. For Claire and her parents, there is only the return home to broken lives. Years later, Claire is living and working in New York City when a brief but fateful encounter brings her together with Clive Richardson, one of the men originally suspected of murdering her sister. It is a moment that sets Claire on an obsessive pursuit of the truth-not only to find out what happened the night of Alison's death but also to answer the elusive question: Who exactly was her sister? At seven, Claire had been barely old enough to know her: a beautiful, changeable, provocative girl of eighteen at a turbulent moment of identity formation. As Claire doggedly shadows Clive, hoping to gain his trust, waiting for the slip that will reveal the truth, an unlikely attachment develops between them, two people whose lives were forever marked by the same tragedy. For readers of Emma Cline's The Girls and Lauren Groff's Fates and Furies, Saint X is a flawlessly drawn and deeply moving story that culminates in an emotionally powerful ending."--.… (mais)
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Título:Saint X
Autores:Alexis Schaitkin (Autor)
Informação:Celadon Books (2020), 352 pages
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The initial setting of this book is a fictional Caribbean island, and the next part of the book is set in NYC, both are done well. It is a story of a family on vacation on Saint X,, wealthy parents and their 2 daughters. Alison is 18, gorgeous and provocative. Claire is 7, and looks up to her sister.
On the last night of the vacation, Alison goes missing and is later found dead. Two of the resort workers are arrested, but let go. A Yale college boy is also questioned.
Claire mourns her sister's death, especially, when she is 18, and realizes that she has outlived Alison. She has a chance encounter with one of the men arrested, and decides to become close to him to find out if he killed Claire.
A dangerous story with a sad ending. ( )
  rmarcin | Feb 4, 2024 |
Enjoyed everything about this book. It felt 100% accurate describing the Caribbean resort vacation experience and I don’t know how accurate the islander POV was but it felt true too.

The story centers upon the disappearance & death of a pretty young American and how that impacts the life of everyone who knew her long after the events transpire.

Really glad I wasn’t reading this while on a tropical vacation! ( )
  hmonkeyreads | Jan 25, 2024 |
Great as an audiobook since it's fully cast. A lot more introspective about how a death affected those surrounding it than solving the mystery thrilling. I enjoyed it. ( )
  hellokirsti | Jan 3, 2024 |
Being a good writer is not the same thing as being a good storyteller. Schaitkin is an excellent writer who needs to polish her storytelling skills: what begins as an intriguing mystery on a Carribean island soon devolves into a maddeningly meandering sprawl, capped by an anti-climactic ending that also includes a fairly apparent plot hole that should have been caught in the editing process. Grade: D- ( )
  JodiS | Jul 9, 2023 |
Thanks to Libro.fm and Celadon Books for letting me have a chance to read and review this book.

So, this one was okay, I was hoping for something more than what I got from this story. I've had a hard time trying to think and figure out how to review this one.
On the one hand, it has promise and sounded interesting and it was hard for me to stop reading until the end because I wanted to know what happened to Alison, the sister who goes missing and dies, but on the other hand, it seemed to be a bit long in places and I wanted to skip to the end sometimes.
It also threw in some parts in the story at the end that I wasn't expecting and I didn't really like the ending and what happened when we find out what the real story was about the night Alison died. There was more than one layer to the story you could've gotten out of it, but it was a bit disappointing to me in the end.
The characters were kind of annoying and it was a bit weird in places, which granted some of that is to be expected, but some of it was a bit much, in my opinion.
Also, in my opinion, it was a bit much with some of the profanity and language as well.
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  Kiaya40 | Jun 19, 2023 |
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"Hailed as a "marvel of a book" and "brilliant and unflinching," Alexis Schaitkin's stunning debut, Saint X, is a haunting portrait of grief, obsession, and the bond between two sisters never truly given the chance to know one another. Claire is only seven years old when her college-age sister, Alison, disappears on the last night of their family vacation at a resort on the Caribbean island of Saint X. Several days later, Alison's body is found in a remote spot on a nearby cay, and two local men-employees at the resort-are arrested. But the evidence is slim, the timeline against it, and the men are soon released. The story turns into national tabloid news, a lurid mystery that will go unsolved. For Claire and her parents, there is only the return home to broken lives. Years later, Claire is living and working in New York City when a brief but fateful encounter brings her together with Clive Richardson, one of the men originally suspected of murdering her sister. It is a moment that sets Claire on an obsessive pursuit of the truth-not only to find out what happened the night of Alison's death but also to answer the elusive question: Who exactly was her sister? At seven, Claire had been barely old enough to know her: a beautiful, changeable, provocative girl of eighteen at a turbulent moment of identity formation. As Claire doggedly shadows Clive, hoping to gain his trust, waiting for the slip that will reveal the truth, an unlikely attachment develops between them, two people whose lives were forever marked by the same tragedy. For readers of Emma Cline's The Girls and Lauren Groff's Fates and Furies, Saint X is a flawlessly drawn and deeply moving story that culminates in an emotionally powerful ending."--.

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