![]() The book starts out very Gone Girl: A woman disappears from a Brooklyn apartment and her boyfriend spends days trying to figure out where she went and why. The 10 minutes it took to get above ground felt like an hour, so badly did I want to find out what happened next. ![]() ![]() The dilemma that faced me as I read was not how to get out of reviewing the book but rather that I was whipping through the pages and by the time I had finished the excerpt I was still underground and unable to download the rest to keep reading. I downloaded a sample chapter to my phone so I could read it on my subway ride home. But a promise is a promise so I owed it to the Publisher to at least read the book. What would I do then? Pretend I would review it but “never get around to it”? Or be forced to write a review about a book I didn’t like? It was a moral dilemma to say the least. John Mandel and had no idea if I would like the book. John Mandel whose latest book, Station Eleven, was nominated for the National Book Award, you have to take the request seriously. ![]() When a Publisher asks you to review a book, in this case, Last Night in Montreal, and the book is written by Emily St. ![]()
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