The Incendiaries
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Beschreibung
Phoebe Lin and Will Kendall meet their first month at prestigious Edwards University. Phoebe is a glamorous girl who doesn't tell anyone she blames herself for her mother's recent death. Will is a misfit scholarship boy who transfers to Edwards from Bible college, waiting tables to get by. What he knows for sure is that he loves Phoebe.
Grieving and guilt-ridden, Phoebe is increasingly drawn into a religious group—a secretive extremist cult—founded by a charismatic former student, John Leal. He has an enigmatic past that involves North Korea and Phoebe's Korean American family. Meanwhile, Will struggles to confront the fundamentalism he's tried to escape, and the obsession consuming the one he loves. When the group bombs several buildings in the name of faith, killing five people, Phoebe disappears. Will devotes himself to finding her, tilting into obsession himself, seeking answers to what happened to Phoebe and if she could have been responsible for this violent act.
The Incendiaries is a fractured love story and a brilliant examination of the minds of extremist terrorists, and of what can happen to people who lose what they love most.
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I had this book on my tbr a while before I actually read it which meant I didn't know anything about it anymore. So to anyone contemplating reading this book: do it but don't have any expectations. The plot: For a 300 pages book, you can't really expect a too complicate story with a lot of plot twists. There was definetly enough suspense to keep me reading till the end but had the book been longer it probably wouldn't have been enough. The charaters: I was really impressed by the amount of characters with different values and origin stories R.O. Kwon was able to include in such a short story. Even though I couldn't really reate to any of the characters and wasn't too invested in them something about them made me want to keep reading. The writing: The writing style in general is kind of hard to describe and I'm not really sure how I feel about it. For example every dialogue is written in reported speech which definetley took some time getting used to but it was something different that I didn't expect. The book is told in different characters point of views - something I really enjoy if it is done in the right way. And this book definetely was able to pull that of. The writing changed according to each characters individual personality so that's definetley a big part of why I liked it. In conclusion this is not one of the best books I ever read but because I didn't expect that much I was actually surprised how good it was.
Beschreibung
Phoebe Lin and Will Kendall meet their first month at prestigious Edwards University. Phoebe is a glamorous girl who doesn't tell anyone she blames herself for her mother's recent death. Will is a misfit scholarship boy who transfers to Edwards from Bible college, waiting tables to get by. What he knows for sure is that he loves Phoebe.
Grieving and guilt-ridden, Phoebe is increasingly drawn into a religious group—a secretive extremist cult—founded by a charismatic former student, John Leal. He has an enigmatic past that involves North Korea and Phoebe's Korean American family. Meanwhile, Will struggles to confront the fundamentalism he's tried to escape, and the obsession consuming the one he loves. When the group bombs several buildings in the name of faith, killing five people, Phoebe disappears. Will devotes himself to finding her, tilting into obsession himself, seeking answers to what happened to Phoebe and if she could have been responsible for this violent act.
The Incendiaries is a fractured love story and a brilliant examination of the minds of extremist terrorists, and of what can happen to people who lose what they love most.
Buchinformationen
Beiträge
I had this book on my tbr a while before I actually read it which meant I didn't know anything about it anymore. So to anyone contemplating reading this book: do it but don't have any expectations. The plot: For a 300 pages book, you can't really expect a too complicate story with a lot of plot twists. There was definetly enough suspense to keep me reading till the end but had the book been longer it probably wouldn't have been enough. The charaters: I was really impressed by the amount of characters with different values and origin stories R.O. Kwon was able to include in such a short story. Even though I couldn't really reate to any of the characters and wasn't too invested in them something about them made me want to keep reading. The writing: The writing style in general is kind of hard to describe and I'm not really sure how I feel about it. For example every dialogue is written in reported speech which definetley took some time getting used to but it was something different that I didn't expect. The book is told in different characters point of views - something I really enjoy if it is done in the right way. And this book definetely was able to pull that of. The writing changed according to each characters individual personality so that's definetley a big part of why I liked it. In conclusion this is not one of the best books I ever read but because I didn't expect that much I was actually surprised how good it was.