★★★★☆ | Mystery-Suspense | Digital | Own | StoryGraph | Goodreads
I enjoyed this bizarre unreliable narrator suspense story. Stepping inside the mind of a sociopath and fretting over his many close calls with being found out is an interesting reading experience. How did this author make you feel for such a monster?
Tom lived his life — as many of us do — in anticipation of an exciting future, but always found fault in the present moment. Perhaps that’s the hook for the reader. We all feel that way.
Favorite Highlights
Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than his experiencing.
He loved possessions, not masses of them, but a select few that he did not part with. They gave a man self-respect. Not ostentation but quality, and the love that cherished the quality. Possessions reminded him that he existed, and made him enjoy his existence.
when he awakened the ship was moving, not only moving but rolling gently with a pleasant rhythm that suggested a tremendous reserve of power and a promise of unending, unobstructable forward movement that would sweep aside anything in its way.