Threshold

This is the sixth novel I read by Kiernan, including the books she wrote under the name Kathleen Tierney. How do you rate a book that you loved until exactly half way through, and then stopped caring completely? I'm already forgetting the latter half of it as I write it, there were individual passages that I loved but as a story it was a mess. Of course it is meant to be confusing, I don't mind not getting a clear answer on things, especially on books like this. I didn't even want a clear answer. But the latter half just kept on piling questions that you know won't get answered, and not in a way that kept me interested. There is a point where things get too weird to care about, it stops being shocking or interesting, Towards the end I just thought, “okay now this is happening. Why not”. I get it, the truth is terrible and humans can't possibly comprehend it but the first half did a better job of conveying that feeling. It didn't help the two of the more interesting main characters got effectively written out of the story. So, first half of the book? Really good. Kept me on my toes the whole time. The characters, the mysterious events, how it's seemingly connected when it can't possibly be connected. I loved it. I'd give it 4 stars.The second half as written above, around two stars maybe. It wasn't offensively bad.So I suppose this would average out to 3 stars. Which feels too much and yet 2 stars is too little (I gave [b:Cherry Bomb 22544020 Cherry Bomb (Siobhan Quinn, #3) Kathleen Tierney https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1409122862s/22544020.jpg 41999445] 2 stars, and this is definitely better than that). I guess a 2.5 if possible would be ideal. Let's say I gave a bonus half star for Dancy because she's great and I look forward to read the other stories Kiernan wrote about her.