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Charlene M.
Apr 18, 2026
This rating will probably fluctuate a little as I let the story sink in. But 4 (4.25?) will do for now.
This is an interesting premise - mostly a straight up adventure thriller told from first person, present tense narration. But as the story unfolds, it has an edge of paranormal and perhaps what could even have been hints of horror. The author ultimately steers clear of this and it ends on the thriller note more than paranormal, but there is is still an edge.
I would be curious to know if more will be done with these characters because the ending was left quite ambiguous. Do we take the characters at their word or go down the hinted path? One supposes this is the start of conspiracy theories to be honest -99% of the explanation given is perfectly rational and makes absolute sense but that 1% is more *interesting*.
One thing that bugged me was that I had a hard time emathizing with the main character. He often came off as rather cowardly, which led to long descriptions when he was stuck in dark places or sewers etc. This made it hard to read at times so I spent some of the book skimming because there was only so much I could read about his fear of the dark and his gullibility which he just kept falling into even after being slapped in the face about it a few times. He just never learned.
Oh, be able to read French to get everything out of this book. I can only read a little so some stuff was lost on me.
Anyway, good book, solid story, lots of great ideas. The paranormal lover in me would have liked to see that edge taken farther (or that it will be later) but like I said, I think that ambiguity was part of the point of the thing.
This is an interesting premise - mostly a straight up adventure thriller told from first person, present tense narration. But as the story unfolds, it has an edge of paranormal and perhaps what could even have been hints of horror. The author ultimately steers clear of this and it ends on the thriller note more than paranormal, but there is is still an edge.
I would be curious to know if more will be done with these characters because the ending was left quite ambiguous. Do we take the characters at their word or go down the hinted path? One supposes this is the start of conspiracy theories to be honest -99% of the explanation given is perfectly rational and makes absolute sense but that 1% is more *interesting*.
One thing that bugged me was that I had a hard time emathizing with the main character. He often came off as rather cowardly, which led to long descriptions when he was stuck in dark places or sewers etc. This made it hard to read at times so I spent some of the book skimming because there was only so much I could read about his fear of the dark and his gullibility which he just kept falling into even after being slapped in the face about it a few times. He just never learned.
Oh, be able to read French to get everything out of this book. I can only read a little so some stuff was lost on me.
Anyway, good book, solid story, lots of great ideas. The paranormal lover in me would have liked to see that edge taken farther (or that it will be later) but like I said, I think that ambiguity was part of the point of the thing.