![](https://image.librarything.com/pics/fugue21/magnifier-left.png)
![The city under the skin : [a novel] von…](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/142995485X.01._SX180_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg)
Auf ein Miniaturbild klicken, um zu Google Books zu gelangen.
Lädt ... The city under the skin : [a novel] (2014. Auflage)von Geoff Nicholson
Werk-InformationenThe City Under the Skin: A Novel von Geoff Nicholson
![]() Keine Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. ![]() ![]() This was the literary equivalent of a straight-to-video crime thriller. I'd say if this were a movie it would be a cult-classic, with most people saying they watched it because it was "so bad it's good" but secretly liking it. Not a bad book and generally an easy read which kept me interested. Still, I felt there was no character to root for as they were all pretty un-admirable, with the possible exception being the female lead who was admirable but very underdeveloped as a character. The final reveal of the secret of the maps was fairly disappointing and I felt the dialog from the 12-year old character was unrealistically more sophisticated than most adults, no matter how "sassy and independent" she's supposed to be. Three stars for keeping my interest without too many eye rolls but I don't think I'll be checking out any further books by this author. Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
"A cartographic thriller with so many twists and turns it requires its own map A cartography-obsessed misfit clerk from an antique map store in a district that's not quite trendy yet. A bold young woman chasing the answer to a question she can't quite formulate. A petty criminal hoping the parking lot he's just purchased is the ticket to a new life of respectability with his school-age daughter. A ruthless but vulnerable killer and his disgruntled accomplice. In The City Under the Skin, it's not fate that will bind these characters together but something more concrete and sinister: the appearance of a group of mysterious women, their backs crudely and extensively tattooed with maps. They have been kidnapped, marked, and released, otherwise unharmed. When one turns up on the doorstep of the map shop and abruptly bares her back, only to be hustled away by a man in a beat-up blue Cadillac, it's the misfit clerk Zak, pushed by his curious new friend Marilyn, who finds himself reluctantly entering a criminal underworld whose existence he'd prefer to ignore. In this haunting literary thriller, Geoff Nicholson paints a deft portrait of a city in transition. His sharply drawn characters are people desperate to know where they are but scared of being truly seen. A meditation on obsession and revenge, a hymn to the joys of urban exploration, The City Under the Skin is a wholly original crime novel about the indelible scars we both live with and inflict on others"-- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
Aktuelle DiskussionenKeineBeliebte Umschlagbilder
![]() GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)823.914Literature English English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999Klassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:![]()
Bist das du?Werde ein LibraryThing-Autor. |