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I know I can’t speak for everyone when I say this, but I think the majority of us have lives we don’t really want to run away from, despite the difficulties they might be putting us face-to-face with. There are, however, many people who, for one reason or another, would more than gladly leave their current lives behind if they could… and such an opportunity presents itself in The Last Flight by Julie Clark.
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Haunted houses have always maintained a certain level of fascination with the general public, to the point where many old homes are only still standing for their value as tourist attractions. I think even those of us who don’t believe in ghosts or paranormal elements are still drawn to these houses, if only for the countless lost secrets from days past they still hold within.
Perhaps thankfully, most of us will never have the opportunity to live in a haunted house, but for Maggie Holt in Home Before Dark by Riley Sager, it’s a common fact of her life she has to deal with constantly.
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Fictional characters tend to be a strange bunch, with their creators managing to make us care for them despite knowing very well they are not and will never be real people. In our mind’s eye, the more time we spend with them, the more we learn of their past and their stories, the greater the significance they take on in our actual lives.
It goes without saying not every author is capable of accomplishing such a feat, but I would certainly argue Timothy Hallinan has succeeded in becoming one of them with his Poke Rafferty Thriller series. It has gone on for years now, and this ninth novel titled Street Music brings the whole show to a close.
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Most of us are born into this life with already somewhat of a predetermined place in the world, largely by virtue of our geographical location and the circumstances surrounding our birth. In modern times, this place we have in life tends to be less of a sure thing, with us being exposed to so many potential paths and options around the world.
However, there are also those like Lilia Albert, the protagonist of Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel, who were never given a chance to have a place in life, and must claim it by the power of their own hands.
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It feels like Ponzi and pyramid schemes are a thing of the past and no one could possibly be so uninformed as to fall for them anymore. Disappointingly enough, greed is a powerful conductor for many people’s actions, and as long as the promise of money will be enough to make them lose their heads, there will always be those willing to take advantage of them. In Emily St. John Mandel’s The Glass Hotel, we are taken right the heart of a massive Ponzi scheme and its unintentionally far-reaching consequences.
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