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Chargement... The Possessions: A Novel (2017)par Sara Flannery Murphy
   Top Five Books of 2018 (210) Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.   ) Carmentalie | Jun 4, 2022 |  ) battlearmanda | Nov 30, 2021 |  ) bookishtexpat | May 21, 2020 | The author of this novel had a wonderful idea for it, but I don't think he was able to use this idea to the fullest. I had difficulty connecting to any of the characters at all, not even when the Big Reveal came along near the end of the novel. By then I was just glad this audiobook was almost over. The storyline as to whether Sylvia was murdered, or had killed herself had gotten more play at about 2/3 of the way into the novel, but it was more lurid than fascinating. I was more spellbound by a desire for everyone involved to get out of one stupid situation after another, than because the novel's storyline was holding me there. In fact, the more I think about it, the more I think the characters in the novel were too immature to be depicted as adults. At least I wouldn't want to know any adults like this, ever. So this book is not really recommended, unless you think you will like it better than I did. I'm giving it a solid three stars, because i still think that using yourself as a vehicle for a dead loved one's ghost to come back and visit you SHOULD have been the basis of an amazing novel. Better luck next time, Murphy....? ( ) stephanie_M | Apr 30, 2020 | ) LianaH | Apr 4, 2020 | aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML: "A gripping, chilling read that's part love story, part mystery, and completely original, it's sensuous, scary, and utterly thrilling." â??Anton DiSclafani, author of The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls In this electrifying literary debut, a young woman who channels the dead for a living crosses a dangerous line when she falls in love with one of her clients, whose wife died under mysterious circumstances. In an unnamed city, Eurydice works for the Elysian Society, a private service that allows grieving clients to reconnect with lost loved ones. She and her fellow workers, known as "bodies", wear the discarded belongings of the dead and swallow pills called lotuses to summon their spiritsâ??numbing their own minds and losing themselves in the process. Edie has been a body at the Elysian Society for five years, an unusual record. Her success is the result of careful detachment: she seeks refuge in the lotuses' anesthetic effects and distances herself from making personal connections with her clients. But when Edie channels Sylvia, the dead wife of recent widower Patrick Braddock, she becomes obsessed with the glamorous couple. Despite the murky circumstances surrounding Sylvia's drowning, Edie breaks her own rules and pursues Patrick, moving deeper into his life and summoning Sylvia outside the Elysian Society's walls. After years of hiding beneath the lotuses' dulling effect, Edie discovers that the lines between her own desires and those of Sylvia have begun to blur, and takes increasing risks to keep Patrick within her grasp. Suddenly, she finds her quiet life unraveling as she grapples not only with Sylvia's growing influence and the questions surrounding her death, but with her own long-buried secrets. A tale of desire and obsession, deceit and dark secrets that defies easy categorization, The Possessions is a seductive, absorbing page-turner that builds to a shattering, unforgettable conclusion Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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