Nevermore
Overview from Goodreads:
The Jazz Age heralds the dawn of
swinging music, sexy flappers, bathtub gin and gruesome murder...
Though vaudeville is dying, Houdini
still dazzles audiences -- and wages war with corrupt mediums. At the same
time, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle arrives in America to lecture on the occult, only
to face frequent visits from what appears to be the restless spirit of Edgar
Allen Poe. But soon Houdini and Doyle find their lives irrevocably linked by
dark, earthly forces.
When mutilated bodies begin turning
up around New York City, a shocking pattern emerges: the killings mirror the
grisly murders found in Poe's chilling stories. Now Houdini and Doyle must
outwit a clever killer, before they themselves become history.
My Thoughts:
I have mixed feelings
about this book. It never really “hooked”
me and I was probably 2/3 of the way through before it pulled together and
become somewhat intriguing. I thought the author wrote eloquently, but
there were parts of the story that just didn’t seem to add any value to the
overall plot.
It seemed like
Houdini and Conan Doyle spent a large part of the story going down separate
paths. It wasn’t until that last 1/3 or
so that the storyline really brought them together, and that is when things
really picked up. At this point, I continued
to read because I was interested enough to see who the killer was and how the
author would end it all.
This is the
first book I have read by Mr. Hjortsberg.
His writing was good enough that I would be interested in checking out
some of his other books.
Thank you to
Netgalley and Open Road Books for allowing me to read this in exchange for my
unbiased review.
This publish
date for this book is March 13, 2012.
My Rating: ***
Great review Lisa, I am sorry the book never hooked you. I often want to edit out things in books that don't seem relevant!
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