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Chargement... Don't Look Nowpar Daphne Du Maurier
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Mine is the Folio Society edition, which is different to two of the three reviews below (but the same as 'overthemoon's) What can I say. Absolutely riveting read - I got through 300 pages in just two days, and at times could not put the book down. All the tales have a twist in them, some bordering on horror, others - if not most of them - supernatural. If you have the same edition as me, don't read the introduction first - it is really full of spoilers! aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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He's playing a deadly game. And he's closer than you think. The first compelling Jack Paris thriller from the author of the Sunday Times bestselling Byrne and Balzano series. Previously published as Deviant Way. Andrea Heller has been married for seven years, but still likes to pretend she's single. She enjoys sitting on her own in bars, and watching what happens. But there's another couple watching too. They call themselves Saila and Pharaoh, but only after sundown. And it is after sundown that some terrible things are happening in the singles clubs in Cleveland. In six months, three women in their twenties have been brutally murdered. And each step that Homicide Detective Jack Paris takes to find their killer draws him closer to the heart of his own forbidden impulses. As the stakes become increasingly personal, Jack knows only one thing for certain. To enter the minds of Saila and Pharaoh is to enter a world from which no one ever fully returns... Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Du Maurier's writing style and the stories' vocabulary and metaphor seemed somewhat dumbed down to appeal to a larger audience than a more literary style would have appealed to. Certainly not very quotable prose. For some reason, I guess because none of the stories were really gripping, it took me a long time to finish the entire book. I was never hooked like I am with horror writers; waiting in expectation for the next story.
I'm not sure why Du Maurier is held in such high regard. Because of some of her novels she is considered one of the more literary horror writers that the non-horror readers (Who wants that stigma?) find acceptable to read. I guess it must be because of her other writing. She sure had a lot of her output adapted as movies.
There is certainly more interesting and exciting horror stories to read. Would I recommend this to someone? No. ( )