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Nine Lives
Nine Lives
Author: Peter Swanson
ISBN-13: 9780062980076
ISBN-10: 0062980076
Publication Date: 3/15/2022
Pages: 320
Rating:
  • Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
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3.3 stars, based on 6 ratings
Publisher: William Morrow
Book Type: Hardcover
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reviewed Nine Lives on + 3094 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
This is a NOTHING book, and by that I mean nothing is interesting until the last 10 pages

So I kept reading and reading until I got so bored I started skipping around

Okay, we get the list of names--now comes the part of finding out about why--so each name gets their own little story and it is so boring and has nothing to do with why their name is on the list, for example, one person goes to a museum and you have 6 or so pages of descriptions of that? and why? has nothing to do with the plot so it was boring, and each character is like that

I finally skipped to the end and written in italics is the reason for the names on the list---revenge

I feel like I wasted hours sticking with this book that has no chill or thrill but just boring descriptions that go on and on and on
robinmy avatar reviewed Nine Lives on + 2047 more book reviews
A letter arrives in the mail with no return address. Inside is a single piece of paper with nine names. Each name on the list received this letter. No one knows what to make of it until one of the people on the list is murdered. The next day another person on the list is dead. These people are strangers. They have no connections that they know of. A detective who worked the first murder is trying to determine who sent the letters, while an FBI agent is trying to contact every name on the list which includes her own.

This was an interesting premise. The story is patterned after Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None. Each chapter is devoted to one of the people on the list. Each time I wasn't sure if they'd be alive at the end of the chapter.

I thought the ending was a bit of a letdown. The reasoning for the murders just didn't work for me. But it was an entertaining read nonetheless. My rating: 4 Stars.