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With the help of some patient and efficient moderators, Riley Amos Westbrook, BB Wynter, Dwayne Fry, J. Because there are so many characters being covered in the interleaved manner, the individual storylines progress in a series of little jumps with pauses in between. Note: The Vacation was originally titled ‘Welcome to Wherever You Are’, this is the re-edited new release.
The Vacation by John Marrs - Pan Macmillan
Their stories move between the current time and the past, as the reasons behind their travels are slowly revealed. However Marrs deftly weaves the narrative into the connections that begin to appear between these intriguing individuals with a practised and confident hand.But for eight strangers at a beach-front hostel, there is far more on their minds than an extended vacation. In some ways it’s a bit like a Woody Allen-esque movie featuring a series of vignettes with an array of characters, all with their own stories that come together in some unbelievably coincidental way at the end. The Goodreads Libra Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. I suspect my mother will hate this as there are a lot of characters all with backstories and baggage and she’ll struggle to remember who’s who.
The Vacation - Kindle edition by Marrs, John. Mystery The Vacation - Kindle edition by Marrs, John. Mystery
However, there are some VERY good twists in the book with at least three characters hiding their wolflike personalities in sheep’s clothing which delivers some good sucker punches.I understood that she wasn't and that her psychotic episode was out of rage and jealousy that her father had another woman and was about to leave her mother and her. Secondly, the principal fault in my opinion was that in every chapter on every character you would get another chunk of the present day story and then that would halt so a bit more of their back story could be told over the last year or so.