AnnAlysis: Mania
March 18th, 2010 | 
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Release: November 2009
On the rainy streets of Seattle, Nick Wilder is leaving a bar with his brother one moment, waking up and finding his brother dead the next. Nick is a photojournalist for a newspaper and with the snap of a finger, things start getting stranger and stranger for him. He starts blacking out and people start dying. Is he the one doing the killing? Why is he always around when the victims are found? And why are so many homeless men involved in murders?
Oh boy, was this book dramatic. I won this book on Goodreads.com. I signed up for it because a journalist was involved. I am a sucker for girly books and any that have a journalist as a character. How surprised was I when I got this in the mail:
This is one of those books that I can only read every now and then. The death and murder and drama, I can only handle them a little at a time. Otherwise, I’d be having nightmares like Nick. And I get really angry when I can’t figure out who the bad guy is. I thought I knew, then they’d die. I thought I’d figured it out again, then they’d die. It was very nerve racking, but I do appreciate a good story that I can’t figure out.
Although this was a little bloodier than I like, but my really only complaint I had for this book was the jumpy-ness. I read a couple other reviews on the book, some agreed, some didn’t think it was an issue. There were times when we’d be with Nick today, then the next page, we’d be back when he was 10. There were times when we’d be with him after the death of his brother Sam, then we’d be during the middle of the murder. There were only a couple of times when I had to keep reading to figure out where we were. It wasn’t a major problem for me, but it did keep me thinking.
This is the kind of book that keeps your turning pages and keeps you on the edge of your seat. It’s not one though, that I could read again soon. With books like these, that once you know the killer, there’s no surprise, it’s hard for me to want to read them again. They never have the same intensity the second time around. For that reason, I can’t give this book 5 bookmarks. I only give 5 to those that I know I will pick back up. But, I will give this 4 because it kept me guessing and was written creatively to keep you thinking.
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Everything about sounds totally me except the jumping around, I actually hate that style of writing.
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