Yes to page-turner! As soon as the police took over, I smelled more corruption in the machinery, so it was suspenseful waiting to see who would turn on whom.
Plausible: I think the police missed the significance of the first accident while pursuing charges on the second, which seemed a little glossy to me. But while I think Frank and Cora dealt that "perfect deck of cards" on the second accident, as Katz noted, it would have been a little unbelievable for the police not to pick up on the Frank-Cora relationship.
Oh, and successfully running a diner together post-exoneration, still living together, and only profiting from a curious public seemed a little stretchy to me. At least Frank had the humanity to ask her to go -- that the Greek's ghost was staring at him everywhere.
It was certainly intense for me - kind of like the train-wreck experience where you know something's about to happen, and you don't want to see the crash but find yourself watching anyway.
And cl, great point about running the diner together post-exoneration. That struck me too when I was reading.
Definite page-turner. I read it almost all in one sitting. The plot didn't strike me as implausible, but maybe I just successfully suspended my disbelief. I agree returning to run the diner together seemed a bit of a stretch.
Agreed on running the diner together. Not terribly plausible.
And I found it odd that she wanted to stay. I understood her hard realism about not wanting to live on the road. She understood that the romance of that sort of life would wear thin quickly and that she'd probably wake up one morning, abandoned, in a flophouse. So part of me admired her for wanting to stick with the safety of what she had, but it seemed like there was some compromise to be had, too, that could have satisfied them both.
Yes to page-turner! As soon as the police took over, I smelled more corruption in the machinery, so it was suspenseful waiting to see who would turn on whom.
ReplyDeletePlausible: I think the police missed the significance of the first accident while pursuing charges on the second, which seemed a little glossy to me. But while I think Frank and Cora dealt that "perfect deck of cards" on the second accident, as Katz noted, it would have been a little unbelievable for the police not to pick up on the Frank-Cora relationship.
Oh, and successfully running a diner together post-exoneration, still living together, and only profiting from a curious public seemed a little stretchy to me. At least Frank had the humanity to ask her to go -- that the Greek's ghost was staring at him everywhere.
It was certainly intense for me - kind of like the train-wreck experience where you know something's about to happen, and you don't want to see the crash but find yourself watching anyway.
ReplyDeleteAnd cl, great point about running the diner together post-exoneration. That struck me too when I was reading.
Definite page-turner. I read it almost all in one sitting. The plot didn't strike me as implausible, but maybe I just successfully suspended my disbelief. I agree returning to run the diner together seemed a bit of a stretch.
ReplyDeleteAgreed on running the diner together. Not terribly plausible.
ReplyDeleteAnd I found it odd that she wanted to stay. I understood her hard realism about not wanting to live on the road. She understood that the romance of that sort of life would wear thin quickly and that she'd probably wake up one morning, abandoned, in a flophouse. So part of me admired her for wanting to stick with the safety of what she had, but it seemed like there was some compromise to be had, too, that could have satisfied them both.