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Laddar... The Red Lotus (2020)av Chris Bohjalian
   Ingen/inga Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken.  Tom-e | Sep 21, 2023 |  DNF (  ) SimplyKelina | Jun 28, 2023 | Chris Bohjalian constantly follows the darker side of humanity that this reader finds distressing. I had read The Flight Attendant and now look at the airline employees in a different light. This somber novel deals with rats, their ability to adapt, and the spending of plagues. Exactly what a person needs to read in the wake of the global pandemic with Covid. The small chapter fillers in between the regular chapters covered the evolution of rats. An interesting discussion, but one of terror. The story ends with very little hope for humanity in the wake of greed, hunger, and power. Alexis, the main character, works as an ER doctor in New York. Her father died while Alexis was still young. Her mother, Dina Remnick, works hard to provide for herself and her young daughter. Enter, Austin Harper, a salesman, who could sell snow to an Eskimo. While Alexis and Austin bicycle in Viet Nam, Austin disappears. Later, Austin and his bicycle are found, and the saga begins. So many people circle around Alexis and her quest to discover the truth of Austin. What does the story leave the reader? Trust no one. The good guys die in the end. A very foreboding story. (  ) delphimo | Dec 12, 2022 | WOW....didn't know where this was going. Kind of freaky coming out on the heels of Covid. Reminds me a bit of some of Robin Cook's novels. No spoilers here, but begins as a nice couple on a bike trip!! Held my interest. I different turn of subject for this author. (  ) LivelyLady | Oct 5, 2022 | The first time Alexis saw Austin, it was a Saturday night. Not in a bar, but in the emergency room where Alexis sutured a bullet wound in Austin's arm. Six months later, on the brink of falling in love, they travel to Vietnam on a bike tour so that Austin can show her his passion for cycling and he can pay his respects to the place where his father and uncle fought in the war But as Alexis sips white wine and waits at the hotel for him to return from his solo ride, two men emerge from the tall grass and Austin vanishes into thin air. The only clue he leaves behind is a bright yellow energy gel dropped on the road. Where did Austin go? Why did he really bring her to Vietnam? And how much danger has he left her in? Thank you Goodreads and Doubleday Books for a chance to read The Red Lotus by Chris Bohjalian! I have never read anything by Chris Bohjalian before this book. But when I found out that I won this book I looked him up and heard a lot of mixed reviews. But for the most part people thought he was a good. So, I looked forward to reading this book when it arrived. But I found myself having trouble staying interested in this book. It wasn’t a horrible book. I finished it. I was just expecting more I guess because of the reviews I read from his other books. So maybe I set my expectations too high. But I will not give up!! I think I will try another book from him and see if I like it better. Happy reading everyone! ( ) thepageladies | Oct 2, 2022 | inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant comes a twisting story of love and deceit: an American man vanishes from a rural road in Vietnam and his girlfriend, an ER doctor trained in deductive reasoning, follows a path that leads her home to the very hospital where they first met. Alexis and Austen met on a Saturday night. Not in a bar, but instead in the emergency room where Alexis sutured a bullet wound in Austen's arm. Six months later, on the brink of falling in love, they travel to Vietnam on a bicycling tour so that Austen can show her his passion for cycling and so that he can pay his respects to the place where his father and uncle fought in the war. But as Alexis sips white wine and waits at the hotel for Austen to return from his solo ride, two men emerge from the tall grass and Austen vanishes into thin air. The only clues he leaves behind are two bright yellow energy gels dropped in the dirt road. As Alexis grapples with this bewildering loss, navigating the FBI, Austen's prickly family, and her colleagues at the hospital, Alexis uncovers a series of strange lies that force her to wonder: Where did Austen go? Why did he really bring her to Vietnam? And how much danger has he left her in? Set amid the adrenaline-fueled world of the emergency room, The Red Lotus is a fascinating story of those who dedicate their lives to saving people, and those who instead peddle death to the highest bidder."-- Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
LibraryThing-författareChris Bohjalian är en LibraryThing-författare, en författare som lägger upp sitt personliga bibliotek på LibraryThing. Populära omslag
 Google Books — Laddar...GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Klassifikation enligt LCBetygMedelbetyg: (3.73)
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Chris Bohjalian writes potboilers designed to become TV movies or series in which each episode or each break for a commercial needs a cliffhanger to keep us tuned in. Red Lotus is making the book club rounds but has yet to join other Bohjalian novels like Flight Attendant and Midwives on the screen, but I can imagine the agent’s pitch. We have a romance between an attractive ER doctor (usually called “the ER Doctor” so we don’t mistake her for a nurse) and an athletic pharmaceutical researcher of dubious character. We have an exotic setting in Vietnam. We have hospital drama. We have a mental illness involving scalpels. We have the tragic loss of a parent. We have the tragic loss of a daughter. We have mommy issues. We have a private eye. And best of all, we have rats and a plague.
I must stop because the referee just penalized Bohjalian fifteen yards for piling on. (