Breathless
Ratings28
Average rating3.3
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Ratings28
Average rating3.3
At the top of the world's tallest mountains, there literally isn't enough oxygen to breathe. In the space of hours your body will begin to shut down. Any longer, and death is inevitable. What better place for a serial killer to find their next victim? Struggling journalist Cecily Wong is delighted to be invited to interview famed mountaineer Charles McVeigh, conditional on joining his team on one of the Himalayas' toughest peaks. But on the mountain, it's clear something is wrong. It begins small - a theft, an accidental fall. And then a note, pinned to her tent in the night- there's a murderer on the mountain...
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I wanted a thriller and all I got was a boring lesson on mountaineering. Yawn.
2.75
This book felt so slow, I was never really excited to pick it up and continue reading it. Almost DNF'ed it. The misdirections for “ who dun it” just seemed so obviously like red herrings. Most of the characters that died didn't really matter because you never really got the chance to know them enough to care. When the action picked up toward the end it become more enjoyable, but by then I was already mentally done. I think the story would have benefited being a novella or even a short story.
Bravo. This is exactly why I read books...to experience things in life I would never dream of attempting in real life so vividly I feel like I'm there! I loved every minute of this book...the atmosphere, the plot...the conclusion. Highly recommend!
I had high hopes for this one given the setting. Any sort of mountain climbing expedition promises all sorts of disasters. Adding in the elements of a thriller should only add to the intrigue. Unfortunately, I didn't find this to be the case with this book.
Cecily is a journalist who has been training for months to make a climb to interview Charles McVeigh. On top of already brutal conditions, a series of unsettling events occur throughout the trek. Death isn't necessarily unusual during climbs... but they start getting suspicious.
Despite such an exciting setup with so much potential, I felt that the story dragged on with very little happening. There were too many characters, most of whom didn't have enough importance to the story to spend as much time on them as they got. It's obvious a lot of heart and research went into this, so I feel bad that I didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I was going to while reading the first few chapters.
