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Threats (2012)

di Amelia Gray

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David's wife is dead--at least, he thinks she's dead--but he can't figure out what killed her or why she had to die. His efforts to sort out what's happened have been interrupted by his discovery of a series of elaborate and escalating threats hidden in strange places around his home--one buried in the sugar bag, another carved into the side of his television. These disturbing threats may be the best clues to his wife's death: CURL UP ON MY LAP. LET ME BRUSH YOUR HAIR WITH MY FINGERS. I AM SINGING YOU A LULLABY. I AM TESTING FOR STRUCTURAL WEAKNESS IN YOUR SKULL. Detective Chico is also on the case and is intent on asking David questions he doesn't know the answers to and introducing him to people who don't appear to have David's or his wife's best interests in mind. With no one to trust, David is forced to rely on his own memories and faculties--but they too are proving unreliable. In Threats, Amelia Gray builds a world that is bizarre yet familiar, violent yet tender. It is an electrifying story of love and loss that grabs you on the first page and never loosens its grip.… (altro)
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adult fiction; grief psychosis.

Expertly rendered;
TOTALLY INSANE.
and yet---
I read the whole thing. ( )
  reader1009 | Jul 3, 2021 |
Creepy/disconcerting deep-dive into a crazy character (borderline unreliable narrator). One of my least favorite storytelling frameworks... yet I was compelled to finish the book. ( )
  joecanas | Mar 7, 2020 |
If you are feeling at all mentally unstable today, for the love of everything good, do not pick up this book. Everybody in this book appears to be seriously mentally ill - I thought it was just the narrator at first but nope - and as I am bipolar myself, that's not meant to be a light comment. I could not tell if some of the people were even real or the ones who were supposed to be dead were really dead; the book just ends without really clearing things up. The whole thing is a mindf#@% and a waste of time, frankly. ( )
  grammarchick | May 31, 2016 |
I found this an incredibly frustrating book. Gray writes like a dream, skillfully creating an odd dream-like world and populating it with strange and troubling characters. The tension is gradually ratcheted up and strange incidents follow one after the other and then... nothing. It all kind of fizzles out - you never get any sense as to what's behind the main character's baffling interactions with the world or what really happened on the night his wife died. There are wonderful bits scattered throughout (the threats that turn up on little slips of paper are wonderful - e.g. "I WILL CROSS- STITCH AN IMAGE OF YOUR FUTURE HOME BURNING. I WILL HANG THIS IMAGE OVER YOUR BED WHILE YOU SLEEP."), but lots of intriguing tracks are never followed and the complete lack of any real plot left me a bit drained by the end.

Side note: the book is not being done any favours by its blurb, which makes it out to be a thriller - it's much more experimental and fragmented and there's no attempt at any kind of resolution. ( )
  mjlivi | Feb 2, 2016 |
There is something about this book that feels empty - like the empty threats that come to David. But there's also something about it that is strangely moving. Or, if not moving, touching. I feel so bad for David, mainly. He's a deeply troubled, thoroughly heartbroken man - and watching his slide into insanity is nothing to take pleasure in. Such feelings being evoked, I find myself believing I enjoyed the book... but then I wonder why it had to be told this way. Why authors feel the need to be strange, elliptical, odd, etc as a thing. It's like how I sometimes don't understand why a particular poem is a poem and not just a couple of sentences. But then I see a poem like that that could only have been a poem and I understand. This book, for me, falls somewhere in the middle of that spectrum. If that makes sense.

More at RB: http://wp.me/pGVzJ-SY ( )
  drewsof | Sep 30, 2015 |
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David's wife is dead--at least, he thinks she's dead--but he can't figure out what killed her or why she had to die. His efforts to sort out what's happened have been interrupted by his discovery of a series of elaborate and escalating threats hidden in strange places around his home--one buried in the sugar bag, another carved into the side of his television. These disturbing threats may be the best clues to his wife's death: CURL UP ON MY LAP. LET ME BRUSH YOUR HAIR WITH MY FINGERS. I AM SINGING YOU A LULLABY. I AM TESTING FOR STRUCTURAL WEAKNESS IN YOUR SKULL. Detective Chico is also on the case and is intent on asking David questions he doesn't know the answers to and introducing him to people who don't appear to have David's or his wife's best interests in mind. With no one to trust, David is forced to rely on his own memories and faculties--but they too are proving unreliable. In Threats, Amelia Gray builds a world that is bizarre yet familiar, violent yet tender. It is an electrifying story of love and loss that grabs you on the first page and never loosens its grip.

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