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Bad Blood by E. O. Chirovici
Oct. 23rd, 2018 08:20 pmThe Blurb On The Back:
It’s a rainy night in New York, and psychologist James Cobb is giving a talk on the art of recovering lost memories via hypnosis. Afterwards, he’s approached by a stranger; a dying man who, forty years ago, wake up in a Paris hotel room with a murdered woman and no memory at all of what happened.
Now, he needs to know the truth. Intrigued, James begins to unpick the tangled threads of this decades-old mystery. But everyone involved has a different story to tell, and every fact he uncovers has another interpretation. As his interest becomes an obsession, and secrets from his own past start to surface, he begins to suspect that someone has buried the truth deep enough to hide it forever.
BAD BLOOD tells a gripping story of memory, motives, and how little we really know about ourselves.
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
E. O. Chirovici’s literary psychological thriller is a smoothly written but thin affair that meditates on the nature of memory and the power of guilt but it’s hamstrung by a pompous main character whose reasons for investigating don’t quite ring true, a central friendship between two equally unpleasant men who I never connected with and an ending that feels like an unearned cheat and which left me unsatisfied.
BAD BLOOD was released in the United Kingdom on 12th July 2018. Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.
It’s a rainy night in New York, and psychologist James Cobb is giving a talk on the art of recovering lost memories via hypnosis. Afterwards, he’s approached by a stranger; a dying man who, forty years ago, wake up in a Paris hotel room with a murdered woman and no memory at all of what happened.
Now, he needs to know the truth. Intrigued, James begins to unpick the tangled threads of this decades-old mystery. But everyone involved has a different story to tell, and every fact he uncovers has another interpretation. As his interest becomes an obsession, and secrets from his own past start to surface, he begins to suspect that someone has buried the truth deep enough to hide it forever.
BAD BLOOD tells a gripping story of memory, motives, and how little we really know about ourselves.
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
E. O. Chirovici’s literary psychological thriller is a smoothly written but thin affair that meditates on the nature of memory and the power of guilt but it’s hamstrung by a pompous main character whose reasons for investigating don’t quite ring true, a central friendship between two equally unpleasant men who I never connected with and an ending that feels like an unearned cheat and which left me unsatisfied.
BAD BLOOD was released in the United Kingdom on 12th July 2018. Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.
