"The future is not as loud as war, but it is relentless. It has a terrible fury all its own."
Harper Curtis is a killer who stepped out of the past. Kirby Mazrachi is the girl who was never meant to have a future.
Kirby is the last shining girl, one of the bright young women, burning with potential, whose lives Harper is destined to snuff out after he stumbles on a House in Depression-era Chicago that opens on to other times.
At the urging of the House, Harper inserts himself into the lives of the shining girls, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. He's the ultimate hunter, vanishing into another time after each murder, untraceable-until one of his victims survives.
Determined to bring her would-be killer to justice, Kirby joins the Chicago Sun-Times to work with the ex-homicide reporter, Dan Velasquez, who covered her case. Soon Kirby finds herself closing in on the impossible truth .
I was drawn to this book because of it's time-travel aspect. The story is told by Harper, Kirby, Dan, the victims, and a few other characters that cross paths. While this was cleverly unique, it lost me a few times and left me with too many questions. It wrapped up quickly, which is not a negative, but I was looking for something else. The narrators, Khristine Hvam, Peter Ganim, Jay Snyder, Joshua Boone, Dani Cervone, Jenna Hellmuth, kept me engaged with the novel. Didn't love it, but didn't hate it either.
Author: Lauren Beukes
Published: June 2013
Genre: Thriller/Fantasy
Source: Hachette Audio
Finished: 8/29/13
This complimentary review copy was received thankfully from Mitch and Hachette Book Group and in no way influenced my review of this book. These are my personal thoughts and reactions to the reading of the book.
4 comments:
Sounds suspenseful
It sounds like a suspenseful book, but having all those narrators gives me pause. Thanks for sharing this.
sounds a little too confusing for me, I'm old.
I like time travel but that almost seems like to many people to keep track of.
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