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The Bleeding
- Narrated by: Stephanie Cannon, Karen Cass, Jessica Preddy
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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The Bleeding
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Publisher's Summary
1899, Belle Époque Paris. Lucienne's two daughters are believed dead when her mansion burns to the ground, but she is certain that her girls are still alive and embarks on a journey into the depths of the spiritualist community to find them.
1949, Post-War Québec. Teenager Lina's father has died in the French Resistance, and as she struggles to fit in at school, her mother introduces her to an elderly woman at the asylum where she works, changing Lina's life in the darkest way imaginable.
2002, Quebec. A former schoolteacher is accused of brutally stabbing her husband—a famous university professor—to death. Detective Maxine Grant, who has recently lost her own husband and is parenting a teenager and a new baby single-handedly, takes on the investigation.
Under enormous personal pressure, Maxine makes a series of macabre discoveries that link directly to historical cases involving black magic and murder, secret societies and spiritism...and women at breaking point, who will stop at nothing to protect the ones they love....
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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Performance4 out of 5 stars
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Story4 out of 5 stars
- Sam J
- 25-03-2023
Intriguing tale on many levels and time periods
The Bleeding was a very well written book whose plot unfolded over thee different time periods. La belle epoch Paris, 1947 French Canada and 2002 Canada.
I was intrigued by how the author would interweave the various historical threads into a cohesive whole. It was as done well and each section was relevant to the one that followed.
This was a translation from the original French but did not distract except for the French names which took quite a while to connect with. Many names were similar to the anglophone ear and in some cases left me confused about the gender of some characters and who was who but I did get used to it after a few chapters.
The subject matter was fascinating although I did at times feel that the author was trying too hard to show how much she had done her research rather than giving credit to the reader’s intelligence. I loved the sense of history as defined by the character’s manners and the focus on period costume. Very well done.
The story came to a wonderful and gripping conclusion and the author should have left it there and I would have given it the full five stars. However there was an unexpected, lengthy, unnecessary and very disjointed twist which felt as if it had come from a different book. It did not spoil my overall enjoyment of the book and I would highly recommend the book to anyone.
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