Perfect Days: A Novel
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Genres: Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Book Type: Hardcover
Author:
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Book Type: Hardcover
If you're looking for a book that makes the city of Rio de Janeiro and the vast country of Brazil come to life, look elsewhere. Perfect Days could take place in any urban setting. However, if you're looking to spend some time in the passenger seat with a psychopath at the wheel, you've certainly come to the right place.
You know from the get-go that Teo is one strange-- and potentially very sick-- young man-- unless you believe sharing your secrets with a cadaver is normal. Teo carries out his plans, convinced that he's completely in the right, and his actions almost become dream-like, carrying the reader along on a growing tidal wave of unease and dread. Clarice makes that tidal wave grow, and when Teo kidnaps her, we know she's certain to become a corpse.
Or is she?
As the days of her captivity pass, readers learn more about her character, and hope begins to sprout. The balance of power keeps shifting between these two characters until the outcome is not certain at all. Speaking of that outcome, it was totally unexpected, and I'm sure it won't be to everyone's taste. I'm not sure that it's to mine to be honest. What I do know is that Raphael Montes had me hooked from beginning to end. I'm really looking forward to reading his next book.
You know from the get-go that Teo is one strange-- and potentially very sick-- young man-- unless you believe sharing your secrets with a cadaver is normal. Teo carries out his plans, convinced that he's completely in the right, and his actions almost become dream-like, carrying the reader along on a growing tidal wave of unease and dread. Clarice makes that tidal wave grow, and when Teo kidnaps her, we know she's certain to become a corpse.
Or is she?
As the days of her captivity pass, readers learn more about her character, and hope begins to sprout. The balance of power keeps shifting between these two characters until the outcome is not certain at all. Speaking of that outcome, it was totally unexpected, and I'm sure it won't be to everyone's taste. I'm not sure that it's to mine to be honest. What I do know is that Raphael Montes had me hooked from beginning to end. I'm really looking forward to reading his next book.
