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Lädt ... Gloria (2021. Auflage)von Bentley Little (Autor)
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Considering she had just attended her mother's funeral, Gloria Jaymes never expected to see the woman again, but then her dead mom shows up at her house.Gloria's mom is... different. She's younger than when she died, dressed in clothes from the 1980s. And nobody else in Gloria's family seems to recognize her.As Gloria tries to figure out the reason for her mother's reappearance and the odd behaviors the woman begins to exhibit other bizarre events occur. The changes to Gloria's world are small and subtle, at first... then they become much more startling.The freaky situation might just be connected to a mysterious shed in a small California town. The strangers who gather around the shed seem to know Gloria's name... and maybe they aren't strangers after all.With Gloria, Bentley Little presents one of his most complex and compelling novels one that is certain to surprise readers on every page. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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What all of his books have in common is over the top bizarre situations, but Gloria really takes the cake here. I didn't know what to make of it at first. It seemed like a big dose of crazy "what if's."
What if your life was different? what if you had children? What if you didn't have children? What if you had a different job? What if your mom died? What if your mom lived? What if you had multiple siblings, no siblings, were wealthier, poorer, a stay at home parent. What if all of your what ifs sucked and no matter how your life was different that was always the same. Always the grief and the suffering and the loss as if it were predestined no matter what you chose. Like a big case of do overs on ground hogs day. That is what I thought for over the first 150 pages and that's around the time I started getting fed up with it. It wasn't until around page 200 that these constant do-overs were explained but that made it no less crazy. The explanation is weak, and vague, and is never made any clearer.
At the beginning of the book I was all in on this. It was strange and creepy and some of these really bizarre scenes gave me chills. Unfortunately there is always that pesky little too much of a good thing, and I reached that point before the halfway mark. It was just too much, and no longer enjoyable or unexpected. It started to feel like walking through a Halloween attraction and the way the first couple of times someone jumps out at you it's fun and scary, but by the tenth time it's expected and gone on for too long. There were also random acts of animal cruelty that were pointless. I think this was the author's attempt at a love story but by the end I wanted a divorce. ( )