5/18/2023 0 Comments The breakdown by paris![]() ![]() We suspect her reliability more than you would otherwise by establishing that her mother had early-onset dementia by forty-four. This time it’s the narrator herself – thirty-three year-old high school teacher Cass – who is unreliable. In Behind Closed Doors, the narrator’s perpetrator, her husband, was pathologically unreliable, a psychopath who fooled everyone. Paris has an impressive knack for creating unreliable characters. ![]() How does the author achieve a relentless, psychological pace? Writing is such an elusive, subjective art. Both excel at keeping the tension going and going and going. Both are non-stop, suspenseful novels that get-inside-your-head. If you’re wondering if her second novel disappoints because her first was too good an act to follow, the answer is unequivocally no. Paris’ knock-out debut Behind Closed Doors, reviewed here a year ago. Unreliable Narrator? (British village July – September, present-day): It’s awfully tempting to compare The Breakdown with B. ![]()
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