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The Game The Valley - Book One by Krystyna Kuhn Atom Supplied for review by Hachette New Zealand |
Reviewed By: Jacqui Smith |
| I was curious about this book because it is unusual in that
it’s an acclaimed YA novel written in German and then translated into English.
It’s not really Science Fiction, or even Paranormal Romance – maybe Mysterious
Romance if there is such a thing. There are classic horror scene-setting elements, but if
there are actual supernatural forces operating here, they’re not revealed in this
first book. It does seem that something odd is going on at Grace College, high in the Canadian Rockies, and a long way from anywhere, and there’s definitely something peculiar about that lake. The book does take a long while to get going though, and about a third of the way through I was starting to think that all this slogging through teenage angst and adolescent relationships wasn’t going to be worth it. Well, I was wrong. By the time we finally find the murder victim (about 2/3 through the book) Kuhn has built up the pace, established the characters, and even tossed in a dose of philosophy… It all works out to a satisfactory conclusion, with sufficient mystery remaining to make the reader want to go find the next book. Oh, and there’s a nice little bombshell right in the epilogue… |
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