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King Nyx

By: Kirsten Bakis
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
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A haunting mystery about lost girls and the woman driven to find them. From the author of the contemporary classic Lives of the Monster Dogs.

Anna Fort wants to be a supportive wife, even if that means accompanying her husband for the winter of 1918 to a remote, frozen island estate so he can finish his book as the guest of an eccentric millionaire. When she learns three girls are missing from a school run by their host, Anna realizes finding them is up to her—even if that means risking her husband’s career, and possibly her life.

Her husband’s masterpiece-in-progress features strange meteorological anomalies along with wild speculations about “facts” he believes scientists hide from the public. Most people think Charles Fort is a crackpot. That’s about to change now that wealthy Claude Arkel is his patron.

Yet Anna is sure something’s not right on Prosper Island, though the alarming return of her “troubles” makes her question her own sanity. Is the figure in the woods really the ghost of her long-lost friend Mary, or a product of her disturbed imagination? Accompanied reluctantly by a fellow guest, the elegant and troubled Stella Bixby, Anna embarks on a dangerous quest to find the missing girls before Arkel finds her—or her own mind unravels.

A contemporary feminist tale with a dreamlike, gothic setting, King Nyx reintroduces audiences, twenty-five years after her acclaimed debut, to one of our most astonishingly imaginative storytellers.

©2024 Kirsten Bakis (P)2024 Recorded Books
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Beach read at best

This story had a few pros and a few cons.
Pros:
The reader was pretty talented and moved the story along.
There was a lot of description throughout the story, some places it was helpful in other places, fluff.
The story had a definite beginning, middle and end.
The climax of the story was exciting but short lived.

Cons:
I felt that the story was slow. Nothing really happened until about 3/4 of the book.
Sometimes the description was a little too much.
The character that the book is named after had very little to do with the story which I found a little bit confusing.
Once the story did get moving, it was over very quickly so kind of anti-climactic.

While I didn’t dislike this book, it would not be the first one I would recommend to someone else. As I said in my review title, might be good for a beach read, or as a filler if you’re waiting for the next book in your favorite series.

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