I’ll start, so as a teen I stumbled across a book called," Someone comes to town, someone leaves town." The synopsis caught me as it’s about a man with a mountain as a fathera washing machine as a mother and one brother that is dead and trying to harm him. I’ll admit some of the technical terms were too much for my developing mind but it has stuck with me all these years.
What is the wackiest / craziest book you’ve read and did you enjoy the ride?
I recently read “The House Across the Lake” by Riley Sager. I’m not sure why I picked it, except that it felt like it might fit the “Woman in the Window” vibe.
Book was totally normal and built decent enough suspense around the disappearance of the model wife in the house across the lake. Obviously the tech husband is suspected because violence had been witnessed by the recent widow. She had turned to drink after her husband was found to have drowned while fishing on that lake.
Spoiler: the lake consumed the soul of the drown husband after the drunk widow figured out he was a serial killer and killed him making it look like a fishing accident. The serial killer husband’s soul then entered the body of the model wife as she swam across the lake one day and nearly drowned. Technically she did drown which allowed for the soul swap. Drunk widow has to redrown the model wife in order to swap the souls back.
Did you like it?
I read it and well… I hated it. The big reveal, that you mention in your comment, was so forced and felt meaningless.
I mostly hated it because I got the author recommended as “the best at mindfucks and plot twists” and the plot twist was just so booooring.
Hated the actual book, but was laughably blown away by the audacity. There wasn’t a hint of the twist and it was so out of left field that it made no sense and had no reason to twist like it did. A true twist is “oh it was the neighbor who helped the whole time!” This was essentially a second book that played by different rules. Terrible.
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