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Tuesday, January 5, 2010
**First review of 2010 :) **
title: Await Your Reply
author: Dan Chaon
genre: fiction/suspense
pages: 324
published: 2009
first line: We are on our way to the hospital, Ryan's father says.
rated: 4 out of 5
Await Your Reply is a story about three strangers whose lives are intertwined. At first you don't know how these peoples lives are connected, but as you keep reading, the truth is slowly revealed.
Lucy leaves her small hometown in Ohio and runs away with her older History teacher with dreams of starting a wonderful new life. He takes her to a deserted house in Nebraska in the middle of nowhere and Lucy starts to notice his odd behavior. Soon enough Lucy finds a large sum of money hidden in his study, and begins to wonder if the man she loves isn't who he says he is.
Ryan has just found out a disturbing secret about his parents and decides to run away. He leaves the University he attends hoping to start a new life. He finds his long lost father and winds up getting involved in some shady business.
Miles and Hayden are twin brothers. Hayden is troubled, he is a paranoid schizophrenic. Miles is searching for his brother who has been missing for 10 years.
As the story unfolds, he begins to put together pieces of the puzzle and gets closer to finding his long lost twin.
This is the type of book you can read in one sitting, I really enjoyed it. This is also one of those books you can read when you don't know what you're in the mood to read next. Do you know what I mean? When you just want to read a good story, something that will grab and hold your attention.
The pages just flow smoothly and before you know it you are completely emmersed in the plot. The storyline keeps you guessing as to what is going on and you begin to wonder about the characters. As I was reading, I felt like I was unraveling clues in the story. Dan Chaon really keeps you guessing until the very end.
This was what real grief felt like-she had never truly felt it before. All the times she had been sad, all the times she had wept in her life, all the glooms and melancholies were merely moods, mere passing whims. Grief was a different thing altogether.
Special thanks to library thing for sending me an ARC of Await Your Reply.
This book has also been reviewed by The Book Zombie
