We all develop in our professional lives (or at least those who are good at their professions) and writers are no different. There are a number of writers whose books I have loved, but when I visited earlier works I could barely find the writer I knew in them. John Mandel's last three books, 5-star reads all, and was looking forward to tackling her backlist. And speaking of on the nose, Michaela (Christopher's daughter) and her background an endpoint are like a very special episode of Law & Order.I loved Emily St. Lilia's backstory and life choices are a little too on the nose. Eli, follows her "just to make sure she is okay" (Okay, stalker!) the story heats up and eventually we sort of learn why at least one person did what they did, but Christopher's motivations are a complete mystery, Eli's motivations and choices are absent or ring false. When one of those moony left-behind lovers. As Lilia becomes an adult she has no idea how to just stay, so she bounces from place to place breaking hearts and taking names. They were both always mere steps ahead of Christopher, an investigator hired by Lilia's mother to find the child and who left behind his own wife and child to pursue Lilia and her father. Briefly, the story follows Lilia, a 20-something who grew up on the run with a non-custodial parent who kidnapped her. The issue for me was that people did all sorts of surprising things, and I had no idea why they were doing any of it. This is a beautifully atmospheric book, a deconstructed noir, that can be fun to read. Mandel's characters will resonate with you long after the final page is turned.There is more than one way to be a femme fatale. John Mandel casts a powerful spell that captures the reader in a gritty, youthful world charged with an atmosphere of mystery, promise and foreboding where small revelations continuously change our understanding of the truth and lead to desperate consequences.
Last Night in Montreal is a story of love, amnesia, compulsive travel, the depths and the limits of family bonds, and the nature of obsession. Then her latest lover follows her from New York to Montreal, determined to learn her secrets and make sure she s safe. Haunted by an inability to remember her early childhood, she moves restlessly from city to city, abandoning lovers along with way, possibly still followed by a private detective who has pursued her for years. In adulthood, she finds it impossible to stop. She spends her childhood and adolescence traveling constantly and changing identities.
Lilia Albert has been leaving people behind for her entire life.
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