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Bad Monkeys: A Novel
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The basic premise direct from the blurb:
"Jane Charlotte has been arrested for murder. She tells police that she is a member of a secret organization devoted to fighting evil; her division is called the Department for the Final Disposition of Irredeemable Persons—"Bad Monkeys" for short. This confession earns Jane a trip to the jail's psychiatric wing, where a doctor attempts to determine whether she is lying, crazy—or playing a different game altogether."
I've been doing a book challenge (loosely) and chose this Audible Audio initially for the prompt "a genre you don't usually read," which for me is sci-fi. But halfway through, I decided to switch it to "unreliable narrator." I really wasn't sure whether it was sci-fi, or if the main character really belonged in the psych ward, etc. This novel is chocked full of twists and turns, and I won't give anything away here, but it was so good! I'm surprised to find a bunch of 2 and 3 star ratings; maybe if you read this sort of thing all the time, it doesn't measure up. For me, it was a question mark right up until the end, and was quite engaging.
"Jane Charlotte has been arrested for murder. She tells police that she is a member of a secret organization devoted to fighting evil; her division is called the Department for the Final Disposition of Irredeemable Persons—"Bad Monkeys" for short. This confession earns Jane a trip to the jail's psychiatric wing, where a doctor attempts to determine whether she is lying, crazy—or playing a different game altogether."
I've been doing a book challenge (loosely) and chose this Audible Audio initially for the prompt "a genre you don't usually read," which for me is sci-fi. But halfway through, I decided to switch it to "unreliable narrator." I really wasn't sure whether it was sci-fi, or if the main character really belonged in the psych ward, etc. This novel is chocked full of twists and turns, and I won't give anything away here, but it was so good! I'm surprised to find a bunch of 2 and 3 star ratings; maybe if you read this sort of thing all the time, it doesn't measure up. For me, it was a question mark right up until the end, and was quite engaging.
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Apr 05, 2024 08:32AM
I might like this one, I like sci fi more than unreliable narrator stories but I can see where sci fi makes the poor characters seem like unreliable narrators 😂 Great review, Renee!
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MarilynW wrote: "I might like this one, I like sci fi more than unreliable narrator stories but I can see where sci fi makes the poor characters seem like unreliable narrators 😂 Great review, Renee!"Thanks, Marilyn! I'll be interested in your opinion if you read/listen to this one; I know you do a lot more mystery/suspense than I do, and maybe I'm just too much of a novice to have figured it out.
