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RELEASE NOTES:

Apparently pjlareau got a huge BC donation of 1,500 books. He offered me several from my wishlist as RABCKs. I will read and send along. Thanks!

The cover blurb on this book says it is “a first-rate shocker” and that certainly is accurate. It kept me guessing, although I was wrong about that, as I usually am. This book was the author’s first. I hope she wrote more that are equally as interesting.

For the moment, the book goes on my available pile.

In the first batch of books I released in my brand new Little Free Library.

The book didn’t move after being in my Little Free Library for almost a year. It’s now on its way to Greece as part of the First Sentences Virtual Bookbox.

This book -and its companion- took a very long scenic route to travel from USA to Greece. It arrived in Delphi yesterday after nearly 5 months on the road!

The blurb seems interesting, thank you very much for sending collectorkerri (and pjlareau for registering and sharing of course! )

BookCrossers are generous people!

This was a decent read to pass the time and it had potential to be very good. But I felt the author got too long winded and the plot stalled sometimes. Some behaviors, attitudes and way of thinking of the characters were too old-fashioned and definitely not politically correct, which isn't usually a problem for me but here irked me in the wrong way. I often felt something was off somehow, the characters not been very convincing to me.

The ending of the first part of the book made me feel that the main character, Nalen, jumped easily into conclusions, right or wrong, so his decisions based on these conclusions weren't justified by what we readers witnessed up to then.

The second part of the book, starring his daughter Rachel, was more gripping, offering more red herrings and "turmoils" on various aspects. But sometimes the author roamed too much in different directions and the book was longer than necessary. Some elements and threads didn't offer much to the story, while of course the plot was full of hyperbole and there is lots of suspension of disbelief required by the reader. There are many harrowing scenes and developments that captivated me, intervened by lots of beating around the bush, so the pace is unequal somehow. The author often used some really weird turns of phrases too, eg who compares a hair style with sausages or potato peels?

My main pet peeve in this kind of books is that they exaggerate too much. This is understandable up to a point, maybe about the main premise or the crimes that are the central point of the story, but they exaggerate and/or rely on unbelievable elements even on the smaller details. For example, the last, action packed chapters made me roll my eyes, even before the final scenes or the final plot twist at the very end. Many little things added up to annoy me a lot!

I don't want to write spoilers here and I'm not saying that this is the worst book I've ever read, but it's one to read with low expectations as a cheap thrill of sorts. It kept me good company while on a long bus trip and I finished it on the return journey a few days latter. It served its purpose fine!

Darkness Peering got itchy feet again and is now off to Falkirk, Scotland.

And then... Who knows?

Good Luck little book and Don't forget to write your news from time to time!

Arrived yesterday. Thank you very much.