![]() I think this was supposed to be a conspiracy thriller, but it lacked the main component - tension. ![]() So much happens that is irrelevant to the main plot and steers you away from tense thriller and into YA redundant, painful dialogue. The Chemist is a very, very, long book, which could have (and should have) been drastically condensed. ![]() The email which causes the trouble happens right at the beginning, another technique which should pique your interest immediately but the action unfolds laboriously and while you can work out more or less what's going on, the finer details take so long to come out that I'd almost lost interest. I was immediately drenched in lists of the convoluted way in which the chemist had booby trapped her temporary home. The pace should have been immediately quick and you should have been automatically invested but that just didn't happen for me. The chemist, who has many names, is on the run, typing an email in a secure location and all round watching her back for danger. The story starts in the middle of the action. But after 3 years on the run, a surprise offer lures the Chemist back home, could this be her salvation or put her in even more danger than before? She's a former government employee who knows lots of classified information and this makes her a dangerous liability. ![]() Summary: Long and unimaginative, a poor take on what could have been a riveting conspiracy thriller. ![]()
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