Siobhan MacDonald
Autor von Twisted River: A Novel
Werke von Siobhan MacDonald
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Wissenswertes
- Gebräuchlichste Namensform
- MacDonald, Siobhan
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- Ireland
- Ausbildung
- University of Galway
- Berufe
- tech writer
Mitglieder
Rezensionen
Statistikseite
- Werke
- 6
- Mitglieder
- 103
- Beliebtheit
- #185,855
- Bewertung
- 3.5
- Rezensionen
- 4
- ISBNs
- 27
- Sprachen
- 2
Two families swap houses for a week in October. Kate and Mannix want to give their sensitive and bullied son the treat of a week in New York and Hazel wants to show her hometown of Limerick, Ireland to her family. Told in chapters that alternate between the adults, the reader learns about the problems both families are facing.
The story starts to take off on page 159, although the two women mention that they are feeling a sense of rising dread or impending doom several times. The tension in the story is based on characters withholding information from the reader even as the chapter is told from their point of view. So one character will ruminate at length on the ominous text messages he's receiving, while failing to think about the actual messages, or a character will make oblique references in a personal journal that point in one direction, but this will be shown to be a red herring later on. And the ending was just silly.
I loved that this book was set in an unrepresented locale. That's what was good about this book.… (mehr)