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I don't understand why so many readers have talken offence at the abuse evocations and other sexual content.

These things do happen in real life and not talking or writing about them doesn't make them less real. And it's not like she goes in lengthy details, she just mentions the fact that they happened. And she certainly doesn't give any indication that she approves them.

But what does get me is her style where she does go on details after details on the fly hitting the screen doors and it goes on and on.

Too many many details and endless narrations going nowhere.

I left after the first third.

Connelly has always done good work and the results are reliable and predictable.

He had even found a way to iron out small quirks that kept irritating me such as lengthy descriptions of Los Angeles.

As usual I enjoyed this new book from him.

Read the French version. So how do you react when you find yourself facing yourself literally, meaning another version of you, same DNA and same memories? Descartes' credo becomes " I think that I think therefore I am".

Unless I'm mistaken her first book. Not as good of course as Little black lies but still a few unexpected twists and surprises.

Never thought that the Falklands could be the settings for so much tension.

After a somewhat slow few pages the pace picks up real quick and never releases you until the last page with many surprising twists along the way.

I'll let you guess how the main character can commit 176 murders and get away with it.

19 th century in France, a girl is sold by her father and is badly mistreated. The narrative alternates between the voices of said daughter, father and mother. The only narrative that carries the story is that of the daughter and the reader doesn't really see what the other narratives are contributing to it. Gets repetitive real early and not too convincing.

Apparently one of the great American novelists but although interesting seemed a bit long to me.

He delves a lot in the domestic everyday life in this work and it's just too much domesticity for me

You need to be either sadist or masochist to endure this work without too much damage. At least 600 of the 720 pages of the book are intense descriptions of intricate sufferings. But I can tell you that you'll never look at your relationship with your significant other the same way ever again as she delves during the whole book on the relationship between the sufferer (Jude) and his friend/lover Willem. Yanagihara in her pursuit of pain is merciless and follows each ramifications to it's bitter end. A life changing work for me.

A beautiful and rich female detective looks for the killer of another rich and beautiful young woman while singing at a karaoke very late into the night when she's short on inspiration and longing for her son who was kidnapped several years ago.