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The Project
Jan. 20th, 2024 10:25 pmEarly in 2023, I was due to go on a reading retreat and decided I wanted to spend the whole weekend reading books about cults (I can't now remember why...), so I asked for several for my birthday and Christmas in 2022. By the time the reading retreat rolled around, I'd come to the conclusion that creepy thrillers wouldn't be the best choice for a relaxing weekend and switched my book choices to something else.
The Project by Courtney Summers has been sitting on my reading shelf ever since and I finally got around to reading it this week - and it's really good!
The story of The Unity Project, an organisation for social good, run by the enigmatic Lev Warren is gradually revealed through the narratives of two sisters, Lo and Bea, whose lives are irrevocably altered by a chance meeting between Lev and Bea after a terrible accident leaves Lo near death.
The way the views of both girls (and the reader) change over the course of the book, in relation to Lev and The Project is masterfully done, with everything shifting over time, as more is revealed.
It did get perhaps a little over-dramatic towards the end, and one aspect of the eventual climax was a bit unsatisfying, but the very end pulled it all together in a heartbreakingly emotive way - and I'm seriously impressed by the overall progression of the story, which kept me gripped without making me want to skim just to find out what happened (a very difficult feat).
The Project by Courtney Summers has been sitting on my reading shelf ever since and I finally got around to reading it this week - and it's really good!
The story of The Unity Project, an organisation for social good, run by the enigmatic Lev Warren is gradually revealed through the narratives of two sisters, Lo and Bea, whose lives are irrevocably altered by a chance meeting between Lev and Bea after a terrible accident leaves Lo near death.
The way the views of both girls (and the reader) change over the course of the book, in relation to Lev and The Project is masterfully done, with everything shifting over time, as more is revealed.
It did get perhaps a little over-dramatic towards the end, and one aspect of the eventual climax was a bit unsatisfying, but the very end pulled it all together in a heartbreakingly emotive way - and I'm seriously impressed by the overall progression of the story, which kept me gripped without making me want to skim just to find out what happened (a very difficult feat).
