The Woman in the Library

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i requested an ARC of this on netgalley with great haste and love in my heart, because it's set partially in the boston public library, otherwise known as the single greatest place in the world.

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Hannah originally planned to come to Boston, but Australian bushfires, catastrophic flooding, and the lockdown in Australia in response to the COVID pandemic prevent her from making the trip. But the unique two intercepted storylines ( both of them are interesting) and smart ending earned my additional half star. However, I think her views were more clearly expressed in the author’s note than it was in the context of the story. In the story-within-a-story, Cain survives surgery, and his and Freddie’s love for each other is cemented.US mobile marketing team is comprised of a fleet of trucks and drivers to provide the perfect size specialized equipment. Freddie has decided to spend the day writing at the Boston Public Library (BPL) but she finds herself distracted by the artistic detail of the ceiling and by the three other people who are sharing her table-People she has made notes on, so she could base characters on them later on-giving them the monikers Handsome Man, Heroic Chin, and Freud Girl. There was so much meandering of the characters going about their lives and hanging out, the whole book just felt disorganised and disjointed.

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I haven’t felt this uncomfortable about an ending since I watched the version of Black Christmas from the 70s. Also, the author being an aboriginal person, you would think she would pay attention to stereotypes but no that wasn't the case. Security guards take charge immediately, instructing everyone inside to stay put until the threat is identified and contained. But I found your blog trying to figure out if those last couple paragraphs of Freddie’s story (trying to keep it vague for any of your blog readers who are still reading the book) had a darker meaning?

With these details in place, Hannah’s story-within-a-story becomes a classic whodunit in which the quest for the identity of the true killer drives the plot. Artist and academic Lisa Perrin’s first book is a gorgeously illustrated and designed collection of biographies of that most romantic and maligned of villainesses: the poisoner. If his long-distance efforts to encroach on her creative territory make you uneasy, they did me too!

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I have to say, Gentill’s style of writing is very good as that first chapter set the tone for what I felt was likely to be a solid murder mystery. Every time we get to Leo's letters, which is at the end of every single chapter, I dreaded reading it. I was drawn into the intense friendship that was formed out of a shared experience as well as the author’s insight into the life of a convicted murderer. Side note: I was imagining Paul Wesley as Whit the whole time, so it seemed like he was definitely going to be one of the killers. I smiled at the reference to Australian chocolate being superior to American, remembering when I arrived in Australia from the UK and thought it was dreadful.

He is thrilled when Hannah decides to set her next mystery novel inside the Boston Public Library and lets him read the story chapter by chapter. In truth, Whit is an investigative journalist who engineered the scream to create a connection between the four people. There are only so many possibilities and—unless it was an alien or supernatural interloper who did it, but alas, no— it's hard to feel even a blip of surprise when it's all revealed in the end. This book alternates between two perspectives and while it sounds like it might be confusing, it did not mess with my brain as much as her previous book.

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DISCLOSURE: Thank you to Poisoned Pen Press via Netgalley for providing a digital ARC of The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill for review. His input becomes dark and unnatural, but keeping you involved and changing your mind several times with who the killer is.And it didn’t help that Katherine Latrell, the narrator, didn’t do southern accents very well or at least couldn’t switch between an Aussie and an American accent easily. I also loved the reference to “Misery” by Stephen King which is one of my all-time favorite horror novels as well as all the awesome coffee references since I’m a coffee maniac as well. But they're bland at best and unlikable at worst, lacking that all-important appeal that makes character studies come alive. She is in the Boston Public Library trying to gather inspiration and finds herself sharing a table with three other people, whom she dubs Freud Girl, Heroic Chin and Handsome Man.