ju rated A Country of Ghosts: 4 stars
A Country of Ghosts by Margaret Killjoy (Black Dawn, #2)
Dimos Horacki is a Borolian journalist and a cynical patriot, his muckraking days behind him. But when his newspaper ships …
Some SF, fantasy, and obscure LGBT, mixed with travel, photography theory and women authors, in French and English.
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I picked this book because I'd just photographed the author -- who is super nice -- on the very island where the action is happening. Maybe brutal crime novels aren't too much my thing anymore, all the POV characters withhold information, in one case it works really well, in the others, not so much...
A really good read, the main character is nuanced and the plot strong -- even though the trope "I have a really dark secret, let me tell you about it much later" is a bit overused in novels, it still works, as the story is more than just that.
Content warning Spoilers ahead!
Good beginning and plenty of interesting ideas throughout the book, but the pacing falls apart, and the characters lack of depth and real evolution.
(Also, by the middle of the book, it become apparent that one of the main POV character isn't very smart, and by the end, she's obviously dumb as rocks. And then, like that, the book ends.)
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