Good! I can imagine Lithgow reading these verses must add a lot to the experience, but as it is, I’m so disgusted by Dumpfeld and this entire administGood! I can imagine Lithgow reading these verses must add a lot to the experience, but as it is, I’m so disgusted by Dumpfeld and this entire administration that I haven’t the heart to laugh much. I just want them gone and remembered as an embarrassing anecdote in American history (make that human history!). There’ll still remain the hordes of deplorables who’ve now been activated worldwide to deal with, however. No matter how I look at it... how do you laugh at your worst nightmare become a reality? Lithgow put in a fantastic effort all the same.
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Update: July 7/2021 Didn’t like this review? I DON’T CARE; suck it up, loser. I win every time I enter a challenge. I'm tested constantly and true. True spectrum, that is, ye assholes. LMFAO...more
Meh. What can I say? It’s a thriller. It’s got all the ingredients of a thriller. There’s a neat and very scary concept at its centre, which is not a Meh. What can I say? It’s a thriller. It’s got all the ingredients of a thriller. There’s a neat and very scary concept at its centre, which is not a spoiler for me to mention, since it’s right there as the book description: your child gets kidnapped and the only way to get her back is to pay a ransom to the unknown entity who has contacted you and ordered you to pay In bitcoins, then kidnap another child, then coerce the parents to continue the chain and kidnap another child, pay a ransom to that same unknown entity, and so on, or else your daughter gets killed by the parents who were forced to kidnap her...
And the chain is neverending and never lets you completely go. It moves at a good clip. You feel the plight of our poor mother, who is dealing with recurring breast cancer and now must kidnap a child since her daughter was taken at her school bus stop in broad daylight. She enrolls the help of her brother-in-law, an ex-marine who also happens to have a slight... who is a junkie. What is the chain? Why the chain? The chain is evil. Our heroine is determined to break the chain.
It’s compelling stuff, but so manipulative. Any parent will be tugged by the heartstrings. Heck, anyone with a pulse ought to be, except me, because I abhor emotional manipulation of this magnitude. And this one was made for Hollywood and popcorn in mind. All the same, I could give it 4 stars because it’s a page turner and you do want to find out what the chain is all about, and I just gobbled it up. But then my rating system would be meaningless. And fast-food is tasty, sure, but still, made for mass consumption....more
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