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Carregando... The Water's Lovely (2006)de Ruth Rendell
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Ho hum. A bit of a holiday read. I usually enjoy Ruth Rendell's books, but in this acase, there was little mystery, and the outcome was fairly predictable. The characters were usually unlikeable, and cardboard cut-outs at that. Dialogue was stilted. But it was well written enough to keep me turning the pages in the middle of the night when sleep was elusive, and I'll read Ruth Rendell again. Just not this one. ( ) Het boek begint heel erg goed. Ongeveer op één derde van het boek ging het voor mij mis. Het verhaal ging maar door, je bleef maar denken hoe eng het was. En daarachter dacht je: 'wanneer gebeurt er nu iets?' Er zijn veel personen in het verhaal, teveel wat mij betreft. Er staan heel goede stukken in, maar over het geheel was ik niet enthousiast genoeg voor vier sterren. Gelukkig eindigt het boek wel enigszins bevredigend. Ik kon het dus met een goed gevoel dichtslaan. Not the best Ruth Randell. Female characters were weak, whiny, psychotic and all of them needed men to complete them. Male characters were creeps or villains with one exception, Edmund, who felt one dimensional. The plot had some interesting elements but went on far too long with an abrupt and unsatisfying ending. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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Weeks went by when Ismay never thought of it at all. Then something would bring it back or it would return in a dream. The dream always began in the same way. She and her mother would be climbing the stairs, following Heather's lead through the bedroom to what was on the other side, not a bathroom in the dream but a chamber floored and walled in marble. In the middle of it was a glassy lake. The white thing in the water floated towards her, its face submerged, and her mother said, absurdly, "Don't look!" The dead man was Ismay's stepfather, Guy. Now, nine years on, she and her sister, Heather, still live in the same house in Clapham. But it has been divided into two self-contained flats. Their mother had lived upstairs with her sister, Pamela. And the bathroom, where Guy had drowned, had disappeared. Ismay worked in public relations, and Heather in catering. They got on well. They always had. They never discussed the changes to the house, still less what had happened that August day ... Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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