If you thought The Whisperer was good... This book, The Shadows by Alex North is amazing, mind blowing and stunning. Honestly the guy had scored very high for his first novel and now he raises the bar even higher.
In front we get a master level thriller, that alternates between two timeline, the main protagonist's childhood, and his adult life, the now. And in the background, we get a solid work of literacy, very well written, fluid, and deep characters development that even add a bit of bookish love into them, with the love of reading, writing and bookshop, just present enough to be good and useful to build those characters background at the same time. Nothing is lost, no filler, nothing stretch or anything. Everything is there for the story and I just read straight through it in two days.
The story is a great thriller, which plays with supernatural elements, is there supernatural, it's just our imagination trying to explain the unexplained, you only will know at the end. But it's also so much more than that. It's a story of love, friendship, family, childhood, memories, ... All of it makes it, sure a good thriller, but a novel that deserves attention in and out of the fan based genre readers.
If I have one negative thing to say it would be that he uses a story frame well known and similar to his first book, so it plays it safe a little bit, but at the same time he improves it so...
A wonderful thriller, perfect for the summer that I highly recommend and know I will just wait for Alex North to deliver us another bestseller soon, I hope!
In front we get a master level thriller, that alternates between two timeline, the main protagonist's childhood, and his adult life, the now. And in the background, we get a solid work of literacy, very well written, fluid, and deep characters development that even add a bit of bookish love into them, with the love of reading, writing and bookshop, just present enough to be good and useful to build those characters background at the same time. Nothing is lost, no filler, nothing stretch or anything. Everything is there for the story and I just read straight through it in two days.
The story is a great thriller, which plays with supernatural elements, is there supernatural, it's just our imagination trying to explain the unexplained, you only will know at the end. But it's also so much more than that. It's a story of love, friendship, family, childhood, memories, ... All of it makes it, sure a good thriller, but a novel that deserves attention in and out of the fan based genre readers.
If I have one negative thing to say it would be that he uses a story frame well known and similar to his first book, so it plays it safe a little bit, but at the same time he improves it so...
A wonderful thriller, perfect for the summer that I highly recommend and know I will just wait for Alex North to deliver us another bestseller soon, I hope!