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Indlæser... Opium and Absinthe: A Novel (original 2020; udgave 2020)af Lydia Kang (Forfatter)
Work InformationOpium and Absinthe af Lydia Kang (2020)
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. It's not a great sign if partway through a book, your reader stops to look it up online and says, "Oh, no it's not intended to be a young adult book." I've read some of Lydia Kang's work before and enjoyed it in a pulpy, historical mystery kind of way, and I hoped that Opium and Absinthe would fill that same niche. Sadly, it's nowhere near as strong as the previous book of hers I read. It's set in Gilded Age New York where Tillie, member of a wealthy and overbearing family, develops an opioid addiction (remember, in the 1890s heroin was an over-the-counter cough medicine!) round about the same time that her elder sister is murdered in a manner bizarrely reminiscent of the hot new novel, Dracula. This scenario could be immense fun in the right hands! Unfortunately, those hands are not Kang's. Pretty much everyone in this book has a case of the Stupids, and Tillie has the most advanced case of all. (There's one thing in particular she does near the end of the book that had me proclaim aloud, à la John Mulaney, "That's what I thought you'd do, you dumb fucking horse.") She's the kind of young female character that gets described as Spunky when really she's just massively irritating. I received an ARC from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. When a book involves narcotics and a serial killer a la Coppola's Dracula making headlines in New York City in 1899, it is alluring. When it is written by Lydia Kang, and there is guarantee of a well researched atmospheric thriller, it is irresistible. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
"New York City, 1899. Tillie Pembroke's sister lies dead, her body drained of blood and with two puncture wounds on her neck. Bram Stoker's new novel, Dracula, has just been published, and Tillie's imagination leaps to the impossible: the murderer is a vampire. But it can't be-can it? A ravenous reader and researcher, Tillie has something of an addiction to truth, and she won't rest until she unravels the mystery of her sister's death. Unfortunately, Tillie's addicted to more than just truth; to ease the pain from a recent injury, she's taking more and more laudanum...and some in her immediate circle are happy to keep her well supplied. Tillie can't bring herself to believe vampires exist. But with the hysteria surrounding her sister's death, the continued vampiric slayings, and the opium swirling through her body, it's becoming increasingly difficult for a girl who relies on facts and figures to know what's real-or whether she can trust those closest to her."--Publisher description. No library descriptions found. |
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This is the second book that I've read from this author. Both were well-written and had some type of poison and murder as part of the plot.
This one involves a serial murderer, drug (opiate) addiction, and some surprisingly strange quack cures! I was really surprised by the ending. ( )