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Stop Me (2009)

by Richard Jay Parker(Favorite Author)

3.5 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0749007079 (ISBN13: 9780749007072)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

ALLISON & BUSBY

review 1: Stop Me is relatively straightforward story, simply but competently told. This is both its strength and its weakness. The strength is it's a relatively easy read, well structured and paced, and adequately plotted. In some ways it felt like a one-off television drama fleshed out into a novel. The weakness is that story-telling lacks any real prose and for me, at least, it didn’t incite any deeper thinking about the nature of people and society, particularly about disappearances and abduction. The story essentially focuses on Leo and is quite reflexive, exploring his thoughts and how he comes to terms with his wife’s disappearance and his journey to discover her fate. This psychological exploration I found was mostly surface with only minor glimpses of any real emotional... more depth. I think my own ambivalence to Leo is that he’s essentially a weak character and I found it hard to warm to his task because the reader is never introduced to Laura. It's quite difficult to care about the fate of someone who’s a blank slate.
review 2: Very twisty and was a fast read until...I did what I always do when I get to a part in a book that I know is going to be uncomfortable/scary/suspenseful and I stop reading because I can't handle it at that moment. Then I just look at the book out of the corner of my eye for weeks knowing that's where I have to pick up to finish it and I'm just not ready. Since I have 6 books in line to be read, this one gets voted off the island. less

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