Live to Tell 3

Live to Tell, Review Day 3

February 6, 2014

Plot and Twists:

I hate tropes, I love mystery. Put a commonly used amnesia accident and assimilate it with a mystery suspense genre you have a bittersweet flavour in your retinas, but add a fantastic plot twist and the bitter taste is diminished into nearly nothingness. 

Live to Tell was a short book, but had fantastic pacing (due to the fact that the setting never changed, but that's another story). There was surprisingly a lot of suspense and tension, even though there was no threat in the area, just the prospect of something happening or a sudden discovery of events (e.g. finding out your mom is the killer even though she's far away in Booneville, Kentucky at a sausage convention. Don't ask where this came from), despite suffering from a slow beginning and an overused plot point (amnesia). But I will promise it picks up really quickly.

Lastly I want to mention that there is a huge factor that comes near the end that will change everything (sadly afterwards there's a terrible epilogue that's meaningless and full of exposition, but at least it's short)

My final opinion about the plot is that it's good. Great suspense, great mystery, bad epilogue, slow beginning. Check in for review day 4.