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Family and interpersonal dynamics, questions of good and evil, horrifying monsters (some of them human), and moments of violence both graphic and poetic serve as backdrop to a growing sense of kinship between Kate and August, who want a better world-but probably won’t get one, based on the zinger of an ending.Ĭrackling with energy, just the ticket for an all-night read. Across town, Sunai August (seemingly 16, black haired and gray-eyed, a monster who tries to be human) wants his adoptive father’s side to succeed in creating a better world. Against this, Kate Harker (fair-haired, partially deaf, inclined to arson and spying) returns to appease and impress her father, who controls the Malchai and half the city. The scene: an isolated supercity in former middle America, populated by the evil Corsai and Malchai and the more complicated Sunai, who can kill only those who have killed (and must do so regularly to maintain their semblance of humanity) all have been born from moments of violence. Schwab’s latest seems poised to grab both her adult and teen readers the world is fascinating (if sometimes a little thin-education and technology are almost exactly the same in this future), the characters complicated, and the political machinations and emotional depths both charged and compelling. Natural enemies find themselves reluctant allies in a war-torn, monstrous future. Lisa explains that she was prompted to write, Raising the Bottom: Making Mindful Choices in a Drinking Culture, published in June 2017, when she realized after 24 years of working in hospitals, that doctors and traditional health care offer few solutions to women with alcohol use disorders. 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As she explains, and as I’ve observed in the work I do with individuals and families, women have a complicated relationship with alcohol, both individually and societally, for a number of reasons. I invited author, Lisa Boucher, to share this Q and A about her new book, Raising the Bottom: Making Mindful Choices in a Drinking Culture, because of its focus on women. In fact, the character’s humanity makes the fear they instill even worse after their sociopathic walls are tested as the night’s events escalate into chaos. Once again, I can’t really say who that is (to preserve the mystery), but the character is absolutely terrifying without ever devolving into a supervillain territory. Her brilliant performance is only rivaled by the film’s primary antagonist. Even when it involved the parts I didn’t like, Liu sold those additional aspects of Darby’s backstory to create a tragically flawed and believable hero. I wasn’t a huge fan of the way they changed Darby’s backstory into her being a drug addict (more on that in a bit), but Hannah Rose Liu portrays the character brilliantly. Luckily, this is one area where the film absolutely nailed it. As great as No Exit‘s premise is, it can’t work without the characters. I'm going to suggest "The Ghost Writer" by John Harwood as a much better example of the genre.Ĭraig and Effie Bellman are your typical upscale New Yorkers. This one covered the repulsion factor just fine, but it sure didn't keep me up at night. But as a lover of ghost stories, there is a real difference, between being shocked or repulsed by what I'm reading, and being scared by it. Now don't get me wrong, there are truly disturbing scences here, and many that are fraught with such a level of misogyny that some individuals may have a hard time reading them. I agree with another reviewer who mentioned the killings of some of the characters that came totally out of left field with absolutly no motivation behind them. I say this because the "haunting" if you can call it that is not limited to the house, but rather inhabits the characters of the story who travel around and do some very nasty bidding on behalf of the house (or should we say on behalf of Jack) The premises of time and ones perception of it were very thought-provoking, but the actual rationale behind some of the events just didn't ring true. It really isn't a "haunted house" story at all, more like a time travelling possession story. Sorry fellow scare seekers, this one just didn't cut it for me. |