Going Out

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Mary Kubica has taken a foray in an unusual direction from her usual psychological thrillers with this mystery featuring Jessie Sloane set in Chicago. For all of her life, it’s been just the two of them and questions regarding her father remain unanswered.

What gave me trouble was Jessie’s almost incoherent musings as the number of days of her insomnia grew. However, if there is a lot of buzz around your book, your agent will make a power play to keep rights, for her to sell separately to different houses around the world.The reader is left wondering if what is happening is real or is she hallucinating due to lack of sleep? In a series of events loosely based on The Wizard of Oz - which is neatly woven into the story in several ways - the two friends embark on a mission to escort Luke to a mysterious healer who promises to cure him, accompanied by a colourful group of new acquaintances; an ex-school bully who thinks she's a witch, a young man with testicular cancer, a girl who's just won the lottery, and an old friend with a colourful past. I wish I could say it was worth the wait but sadly I found myself wishing it was over from about halfway through.

Julie è il personaggio meglio rappresentato, ci sono dei dialoghi coerenti e la trama scorre leggera. I personaggi avevano lati particolari e affini al mio carattere, quindi non mi sono totalmente dispiaciuti. As you might already know, I love Scarlett Thomas and have been trying to get my hands on a copy of this - one of her rarer books - for quite a while; it was the one book of hers, excepting a couple of the very early Lily Pascale mysteries, I hadn't read. v=1551217729","options":["Size"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":13486194778,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.She has a way of writing dialogue that’s so believable without being dull, even when the conversations go nowhere and barely anything happens. This one is about twentysomething Luke, who has a rare disease that makes it impossible for him to go outside, and Julie, who goes out in the world but is afraid of everything she finds there. With the shock of her mother’s death and the question of her identity she finds herself unable to sleep. I did not know if Jessie was going to die from a lack of sleep (I never knew this was possible)or die from her “floating in air” hallucinations or get run over by a car as she walked aimlessly down a street. There were some other elements that left me with questions, but I am not going to nit-pick over each and every one.