A dark lake has by its literary concept some compelling metaphors.
A countryside author once posited that the world of water has a way of perpetuating myths and shrouding lakes with mystery and intrigue.
Well here is a lake that conjures dark mystery in the opening chapters in this Australian would-be thriller
This is s first effort by the Australian advertising-communications executive now turned writer.
She gives an interesting Insight to small-town Australia -- not quite the outback but outside the metropolitan mindset.
Yet despite early promise it offers no real gravitas and in the end suffers from "overwrite",
Her "dark lake" is in effect a
reflective pool that mirrors the teenage angst and plenty of underage boozing conjoined with adult complexities and emotions.
The body of a teacher found in the murky waters of this school side lake sets up a storyline that embroils a weird and troubled family, a female detective who just happens to be a former school chum of the victim and who seems to be have emotional problems of a complex nature involving adult relationships.
At more than 450 pages, this is a long literary haul and takes a concerted effort and much stamina
to sustain interest in characterisation and narrative line.
The author obsesses at times with running metaphors, doing laps in both body and mind.
Her analogies are at times trite, and at times contrived and tortuous.
Freight trains "crashing through the mind"; frustrated crime fighters seeking a "solve";
The episodic nature with short chapters should have endured a pacy, aerobic stride -- but reality is that the cerebral lactic buildup kicks in to slow the storyline and in the end it seems the author is as grateful to cross the finish line as is the reader.
A countryside author once posited that the world of water has a way of perpetuating myths and shrouding lakes with mystery and intrigue.
Well here is a lake that conjures dark mystery in the opening chapters in this Australian would-be thriller
This is s first effort by the Australian advertising-communications executive now turned writer.
She gives an interesting Insight to small-town Australia -- not quite the outback but outside the metropolitan mindset.
Yet despite early promise it offers no real gravitas and in the end suffers from "overwrite",
Her "dark lake" is in effect a
reflective pool that mirrors the teenage angst and plenty of underage boozing conjoined with adult complexities and emotions.
The body of a teacher found in the murky waters of this school side lake sets up a storyline that embroils a weird and troubled family, a female detective who just happens to be a former school chum of the victim and who seems to be have emotional problems of a complex nature involving adult relationships.
At more than 450 pages, this is a long literary haul and takes a concerted effort and much stamina
to sustain interest in characterisation and narrative line.
The author obsesses at times with running metaphors, doing laps in both body and mind.
Her analogies are at times trite, and at times contrived and tortuous.
Freight trains "crashing through the mind"; frustrated crime fighters seeking a "solve";
The episodic nature with short chapters should have endured a pacy, aerobic stride -- but reality is that the cerebral lactic buildup kicks in to slow the storyline and in the end it seems the author is as grateful to cross the finish line as is the reader.