Stewart, Mary: Touch Not the Cat
For a thriller about a woman who's had an anonymous telepathic lover her whole life without knowing which of three candidates it was, this was a surprisingly boring book.
So Bryony knows that her telepathic sweetie is one of her three cousins, because he often mentions things they did together back when they were all growing up together on Ashley Court, the decrepit yet beloved ancestral estate. He knows who she is, because she's the only girl. This story would have been more interesting if the telepaths didn't know each other's genders. It would have also been more interesting if Bryony had found it one-fifth as creepy as I did that her invisible boyfriend knew who she was but she didn't know who he was because he wouldn't tell her.
Actually, there's a lot of things that would have made this story more interesting. Like more atmosphere, more suspense, and more made of the telepathic bond. There's one excellent twist which, although I saw it before Bryony did, still took me by surprise when I did realize it. And her psychic friend turns out to have a reasonable-- well, fairly reasonable-- motive for keeping his identity secret, which was not soemthing I had expected. Still, pretty dull and routine. The title is the best part.
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So Bryony knows that her telepathic sweetie is one of her three cousins, because he often mentions things they did together back when they were all growing up together on Ashley Court, the decrepit yet beloved ancestral estate. He knows who she is, because she's the only girl. This story would have been more interesting if the telepaths didn't know each other's genders. It would have also been more interesting if Bryony had found it one-fifth as creepy as I did that her invisible boyfriend knew who she was but she didn't know who he was because he wouldn't tell her.
Actually, there's a lot of things that would have made this story more interesting. Like more atmosphere, more suspense, and more made of the telepathic bond. There's one excellent twist which, although I saw it before Bryony did, still took me by surprise when I did realize it. And her psychic friend turns out to have a reasonable-- well, fairly reasonable-- motive for keeping his identity secret, which was not soemthing I had expected. Still, pretty dull and routine. The title is the best part.
View on Amazon: Touch Not the Cat