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Miracle Creek - Angie Kim

Miracle Creek

von Angie Kim

A thrilling debut novel for fans of Liane Moriarty and Celeste Ng about how far we'll go to protect our families—and our deepest secretsMy husband asked me to lie. Not a big lie. He probably didn't even consider it a lie, and neither did I, at first . . .

In rural Virginia, Young and Pak Yoo run an experimental medical treatment device known as the Miracle Submarine—a pressurized oxygen chamber that patients enter for therapeutic "dives" with the hopes of curing issues like autism or infertility. But when the Miracle Submarine mysteriously explodes, killing two people, a dramatic murder trial upends the Yoos' small community.

Who or what caused the explosion? Was it the mother of one of the patients, who claimed to be sick that day but was smoking down by the creek? Or was it Young and Pak themselves, hoping to cash in on a big insurance payment and send their daughter to college? The ensuing trial uncovers...

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Did not work for me

After reading all those raving reviews, I thought I'd give Miracle Creek a try. Sadly, the book turned out to be a huge disappointment for me.

I could not raise any sympathy for any of the characters (despite the dead boy) who just seemed to express various levels of selfishness and lied and intrigued throughout the whole story, even after the desastrous outcome of the explosion. Too soon I felt bored with the various POVs the book was told from and felt the story was going in circles...

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Art:
eBook
Sprache:
englisch
ISBN:
9780374717988
Erschienen:
April 2019
Verlag:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
7
Eigene Bewertung: Keine
Durchschnitt: 3.5 (2 Bewertungen)

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