Laura eBook Amy Cross
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“You don't think this could be about Laura, do you?”
Ten years ago, they were all friends. Ten years ago, something terrible happened. Ten years ago, they agreed to take the truth about Laura to their graves. All they had to do was forget, and keep their mouths shut.
But when a hidden force starts cutting them down one by one, in a series of increasingly horrific incidents, the remaining friends are forced to face the truth.
Somehow, Laura has come back.
Laura is a horror story about six people who thought they could hide the truth, and about the girl who returns from the grave to make them all pay.
Laura eBook Amy Cross
I really enjoyed this book in the beginning, was very well written, characters correctly developed and the narrative was well structured... it was fun to read, but that was just until about 70% of the book... from then on, it started being absurd, totally erratic and non coherent, and the end was just painfull to read. It was like the last 30% of the book was written in a rush to finish with no idea whatsoever of how to end it, or written by someone else.Product details
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Laura eBook Amy Cross Reviews
I think I should begin by saying that this is one of the most difficult reviews that I've ever written...and I've written a lot of reviews. Even now I can still feel my mind going over some of the details of this book trying to make sense of them. Don't get me wrong, this wasn't a bad read at all. It just had a...well a pretty unusual plot (again this isn't bad especially if you're tired of 'typical' and want something different).
I like the way the story was told - from the perspective of a number of characters as opposed to having one narrator, it gave the story more depth. I also like the constant use of flashback. It was like a puzzle slowly being put together by combining pieces from the present and from the past.
I do however have some things that didn't sit right with me and thus stole your last star Ms.Cross. Firstly, a woman died and didn't realize that she was dead for 6 months? What's even worse is that her husband has been hiding the fact that she's dead and been living with a ghost for 6 months?? Another thing is the inconsistency. Laura was able to leave an apartment only by drawing on the energy of the other people that she had killed but somehow managed to travel cross country, sometimes even become tangible and kill said people? How? I was really looking forward to that explanation but it never came. Since we're on the subject, how did her spirit even become stuck in/tied to the apartment in the first place, shouldn't she have been trapped in the cave that she died in? I apologize but horror is my favourite genre and while this book wasn't bad, it could have been even better if those questions had been addressed. As a small side note I think I should mention that English errors started to surface close to the end of the book, mostly with omitted words. They ofcourse weren't that bad but were a little distracting.
As I began by saying, this is one of the most difficult reviews that I have ever written. I decided to simply put what was on my mind to paper and hope with my heart of hearts that I didn't paint a negative picture of this book. It's worth a read.
Laura by Amy Cross came out in 2017. The novel’s page lists it at 501 pages. Free through Unlimited; the purchase price is USD 0.99. I am an Amy Cross addict although I cannot read two of her books consecutively. She might be considered by most readers to be a writer of horror fiction but there is also a mixture of crime, thriller, mystery, and psychological genre. I find the content too intense to read more than one of her books per month. Then I read other things and return to her novels for a burst of motivation.
After reading a few pages in Prologue, I could tell I was going to have a problem keeping all the characters and their relationships in mind. Going back to the table of contents helped me with the way the novel is organized. There are 13 parts if the prologue and epilogue are included. Then there are ten parts, each one with a character name as its title. The story involves the fates of six main characters with Laura playing a primary role. Reader confusion begins here. At some time, Laura is a member of the “group of six,” other times in the narrative she is not. This is important to the story. Laura was replaced in the group by Victoria. It doesn’t matter who replaced Laura; the situation is unacceptable to her. As the reader will learn, Laura is vindictive, creative, and out for revenge. She is also dead, a fact that partially explains her estrangement from the group.
Reader confusion continues as this character driven story explains shifting relationships in the group as it existed with Laura and post-Laura. Sophie and Elliott are not really a couple. A very close platonic relationship is how Sophie would explain it. Elliott wants it to be more but Sophie intends the relationship to be no more intimate. Lynn and Nick are married and in a fairly stable relationship but Nick would prefer Lynn to lighten up on the cocaine use. Johnathan and Victoria seem to be successful in marriage and financially well off but, as we find out at the beginning of the novel, Victoria is obsessed with the idea that she has a stalker intent on destroying her life. Johnathan feels that excessive preoccupation with this idea will lead to insanity.
Each of the ten character-titled parts is written from the perspective of that character about their relationship with each of the other characters. Their perspectives are given in three parts; one from twenty years previous, one from ten years previous, and one from the present. This will continue to the end of the novel where we find a couple of segments set from a few months to one year into the future. All of this time shifting can make it difficult to remember who precisely is giving “testimony” about what has happened or is happening. I found I had to use a highlighter and make notes so that I would not lose track of who Toby and Tommy were. They are not main characters but they move the story along.
There is not a lot of strong or sexual language in this story. Laura is variously described by the other characters as a slut but that is about as strong as the language gets. There is no reason for trigger warnings. Yes, there are photos of several characters engaged in extreme sexual practices to be used as blackmail but these are only hinted at, never described. So, the reader is left to use personal imagination to fill in the blanks with the appropriate amount of salaciousness to taste.
Laura is dead. No one actually killed her (perhaps, readers can decide) but Laura blames everyone for her death. She wants revenge and believes the best consequence for everyone she blames for her death would be to spend some time with her in the wonderful state of Limbo. How she goes about this and whether she will succeed or not is what makes this a very entertaining read. Not all Amy Cross books were created equal. I put them in three categories ranging from merely entertaining (good) to entertaining with a twist (better) to the top category of entertaining with lots of twists and surprises (very good). Laura is in the top category.
One thing you should know about this book is that it is very long and it really takes a while to fully understand the time concept. I really didn't pay much attention to the dates and time at first but at some point it becomes crucial. However prior to that it seems unnecessary especially given how many pages you must read before it is crucial.
And yes, the ending is horrific and there is something to be said about gradually building up the excitement. However, It may be just my personal bias but I generally like books to have some scary parts before you have committed quite a bit of time to reading it. There are so many other books to read. So that's one of my main complaints. The other is that the character who is sacrificed or killed off is made to be so obnoxious that I had zero sympathy for her even when she was dying.
So yes the book has a great ending but I feel it took too long to get there.
The story was disjointed. Difficult at times to follow, which may or may not have been the author's intention.
There were many mispelled words, which I find distracting from the story, and unprofessional for a published work.
The story line was imaginative, but the ghost's intentions somewhat blurred. Her actions didn't seem in harmony with her desires. All in all, not one of Amy's better works.
I really enjoyed this book in the beginning, was very well written, characters correctly developed and the narrative was well structured... it was fun to read, but that was just until about 70% of the book... from then on, it started being absurd, totally erratic and non coherent, and the end was just painfull to read. It was like the last 30% of the book was written in a rush to finish with no idea whatsoever of how to end it, or written by someone else.
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