The Lost Night
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The Lost Night
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Narrated by:
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Kate Handford
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By:
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Andrea Bartz
About this listen
What really happened the night Edie died? Years later, her best friend Lindsay will learn how unprepared she is for the truth.
In 2009, Edie had New York's social world in her thrall. Mercurial and beguiling, she was the shining star of a group of recent graduates living in a Brooklyn loft and treating New York like their playground. When Edie's body was found near a suicide note at the end of a long, drunken night, no one could believe it. Grief, shock, and resentment scattered the group and brought the era to an abrupt end.
A decade later, Lindsay has come a long way from the drug-addled world of Calhoun Lofts. She has devoted best friends, a cosy apartment, and a thriving career as a magazine's head fact-checker. But when a chance reunion leads Lindsay to discover an unsettling video from that hazy night, she starts to wonder if Edie was actually murdered - and, worse, if she herself was involved. As she rifles through those months in 2009 - combing through case files, old technology and her fractured memories - Lindsay is forced to confront the demons of her own violent history to bring the truth to light.
©2019 Andrea Bartz (P)2019 Orion Publishing GroupCritic reviews
"Tightly paced and skillfully plotted, The Lost Night is a remarkable debut." (Jessica Knoll, New York Times best-selling author of Luckiest Girl Alive)
"Andrea Bartz casts a nostalgic, misty haze over this story about a meticulous-minded woman playing detective with her own life. If you've ever woken up unsure of what happened the night before and then proceeded to do it again...oh my, this is your book." (Caroline Kepnes, author of You and Providence)
Two drawbacks, both unfortunate/unnecessary:
1) Credibility/plot problem *** [spoiler alert]
The way this is done here, no reader will seriously believe that the protagonist did it herself. In the beginning, when the author merely subtly hints at this possibility, it's fine. In part interesting even. The moment the author launches into giving the protagonist the actual believe that she did it, all credibility is lost, however. Suspense and timing are lost with it, because we know she did not do it, so just read on to get to the next part (if we are invested enough in the story to read on). Dear author... if you really want us to believe that your protagonist did it herself, then give her an actual anger problem instead of letting her so obviously be misdiagnosed as a child. (That part is done quite unconvincingly as well, by the way.) I understand the author's temptation to further explore the 'protagonist falsely blames herself' plotline, but this has been done so many times before and is so hard to pull off convincingly - resisting that temptation would have elevated the book to another level.
2) Narrator's limits
The narrator does a good job with the protagonist's voice, but the other characters should have been narrated by another voice-actor. Some narrators can pull off different voices/characters, but here, that doesn't work unfortunately. There is little difference between any of the 'voices', to be honest. The male voices/characters are particularly unconvincing.
Still a good read and a good listen, just two unfortunate drawbacks.
Great debut for the most part, 2 drawbacks
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