This book hovered around a 3 star rating until Part 3 when the major plot twist happened! Disclaimer: I have yet to read North's "Whisper Man", which means that I have no background on his previous work. "The Shadows" was definitely one of those books that I could easily sit down with for a few hours and thought about when I wasn't reading it.
Told from the points of view of Paul Adams and Detective Amanda Beck, the reader gets both an interior and exterior view of the gruesome murders. The flashbacks belong to Paul, however, and allows one to understand the present by going back to the past. The plotting, the murders, and the cover-ups are all slowly revealed, making the case Detective Beck is investigating see all the more like a copycat killing.
To be perfectly honest, the storyline was a little hard to follow. It kept flipping between present and past tense and 1st and 3rd person narration. It gets easier to follow as the book progresses, but I had to go back and re-read the beginning part way through. While there weren't a ton of characters, there were enough that required me flipping back through what I had already read, especially towards the end. Lucid dreaming is a key topic in this book, which was extremely fascinating and not a common thriller novel subject.
Intriguing, spooky, and intense, I recommend this chilly thriller for anyone trying to escape the summer heat.
Told from the points of view of Paul Adams and Detective Amanda Beck, the reader gets both an interior and exterior view of the gruesome murders. The flashbacks belong to Paul, however, and allows one to understand the present by going back to the past. The plotting, the murders, and the cover-ups are all slowly revealed, making the case Detective Beck is investigating see all the more like a copycat killing.
To be perfectly honest, the storyline was a little hard to follow. It kept flipping between present and past tense and 1st and 3rd person narration. It gets easier to follow as the book progresses, but I had to go back and re-read the beginning part way through. While there weren't a ton of characters, there were enough that required me flipping back through what I had already read, especially towards the end. Lucid dreaming is a key topic in this book, which was extremely fascinating and not a common thriller novel subject.
Intriguing, spooky, and intense, I recommend this chilly thriller for anyone trying to escape the summer heat.