All the Dangerous Things

All the Dangerous Things

2023 • 332 pages

Ratings135

Average rating3.8

15

This was twisty and mind-bending pulling me in so many different directions but left me with a major headache at the end.

I struggled with connecting to Isabelle. She came across as flat and emotionless. But, i tried to give her the benefit of the doubt and thought that this woman hasn't had a decent nights sleep in over a year so that tracks with her being void and blank.

Still though her decision making skills and thought process was weak and didn't always make sense. It was like she was incapable of reading a room and utilizing context clues to navigate situations.

And I completely understand this is a tactic utilized when setting up a character as an unreliable narrator but it felt forced. I get that the insomnia and sleepwalking make her questionable but show me more about how she's untrustworthy in a high stakes way that makes sense.

Maybe I don't like the unreliable narrator trope.

September 27, 2024