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Book Review #58: Nocturnal Animals by Austin Wright

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Hey Guys x I owned this book for ages before I even thought about picking it up (it was given as a gift to my mum, who hasn't read it yet) but after watching the film version of the same name twice, I decided to pick it up and see what I thought of it, compared with the film. Susan Morrow has been divorced from Edward Sheffield for 20 years, so the last thing she expects to receive in the mail is a copy of his new novel. Reading it, she discovers a terrifying story that shakes her to her core. But how could Edward, the man she once knew, have written a story this distressing? And why did he send it to her? I loved this book. For the whole time that I was reading it I had to force myself to put it down because it was so easy to get invested in, and because the chapters were quite short (about 10 pages each), it was so easy to say 'just one more chapter'. First of all, I have to talk about the way that it was written, because in my opinion, it's the kind of book...