![]() ![]() ![]() I mean, if you’re a kidnapper and also … like a double personality.” It didn’t make sense, looking for reassurance from the person I needed to be reassured about, but there was no one else. My stomach was doing somersaults and I knew I looked as frightened as I felt. “How would you know how to use a stethoscope?” I asked. He must be psychotic, I thought, imagining he’s a doctor. something unspeakably creepy about that stethoscope, and all my distrust returned. Ravel’s novel quickly grips readers, first with the nightmarish topic and secondly by developing a strong association with Chloe. The next evening he brought a stethoscope and asked if I would let him listen to my lungs. Edeet Ravel once again proves herself an adept manipulator of difficult material.This is rich, thought-provoking stuff. His face remained expressionless, but his eyes seemed full of hidden messages, and his body was as expressive as an actor’s, though I felt sure he wasn’t aware of it. I was learning to read my hostage-taker’s body language and his movements, and I could tell as I ate that he was relieved. My appetite returned and I ate bowl after bowl of vegetable stew and rice. To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt: ![]()
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